Amilah Baksh, MSW, RSW, PhD Candidate
Amilah Baksh, MSW, RSW, PhD Candidate (she/her) is a Canadian Muslim woman of Indo-Caribbean descent. She has been a social work educator for more than a decade and is currently a PhD candidate at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her SSHRC-funded doctoral research uses critical autoethnography and narrative interviews with Muslim women educators to explore gendered Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism in schools and faculties of social work. Amilah’s research has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals, and she has presented initial findings of her work at international conferences. Amilah is also a registered social worker, whose practice experience spans child welfare, clinical social work and community organizing at the intersections of race, faith and mental health.