Arshi Semy
Associate

Arshi Noor Semy is a researcher and community worker with over six years of experience in the social justice sector and grassroots work. Her areas of interest and expertise include equity, anti-racism, anti-islamophobia work, disability justice, intersectional feminist theory, the politics of shame, emotion and affect, Islam and sexuality in South Asian diaspora/s and marginalized populations in the West. She received her BA from the University of Toronto upon completing a double major in Critical Studies in Equity & Solidarity and Women and Gender Studies with a specialization in Disability Studies. Following graduation, she spent half the year in Mumbai, her home city, working with children at the Dharavi Diary Project and Feminist collectives of Muslim women in Kurla under the BJP regime.

When she returned following this work, she continued to pursue postgraduate studies at the University of Toronto, where she completed her MA degree in Women and Gender Studies. Her MA focused on “Hopeful Spaces: An Analysis of Radical Spiritual Access and Islamic Feminist Leadership”. Arshi also holds a certificate in social service work from George Brown College which she utilizes to further round her care practices and capacities as a researcher and advocate for vulnerable populations in Canada.