Sara Shroff

Background

About Sara Shroff

Dr. Sara Shroff is a transnational scholar and feminist practitioner currently based in Toronto, Canada with 20 years of experience. She has held several leadership positions both as an academic and senior advisor on social justice philanthropy and sustainability globally. Sara received her Ph.D from the New School of Public Engagement in Urban and Public Policy with expertise in gender, education, economics and entrepreneurship in the global south. Sara specializes in the fields of feminist economics, philanthropy and non-profit studies, women, gender and sexuality studies, South Asian studies, and migration and diaspora studies. She is working on two research projects — the history of postcolonial femininity and pedagogy of Muslim womanhood and global feminist funding, gender justice and collective change. Sara is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Waterloo. She has held academic appointments at The Centre for Feminist Research/ Le Centre de recherches féministes at York University, Lahore University of Management Sciences, University of Toronto, Pace University and New York University. She serves on the editorial board of Gender, Place & Culture and as a member of Diverse Solidarity Economies Collective. Previously she served in leadership roles at the International Feminist Journal of Politics, Saida Waheed Gender Institute and Queer Asia. Her work has been published in Handbook on Gender in Asia (Edward Elgar), Feminist Conversations on Peace (Bristol University Press), Gender, Sexuality and Decolonization (Routledge), Critical Pedagogy in Peace Studies (Routledge) Feminist Theory, Feminist Review, Innovations, Kohl, In Plainspeak, and Third World Thematics.