Nishan Zewge-Abubaker

Nishan (she/her) is healing justice practitioner, researcher, and organizer born and raised in Toronto. Her intellectual work combines critical qualitative and mixed methods, archival data, and community-driven approaches. Nishan holds a Masters of Public Health from the University of Toronto with a specialization in Public Health Policy. 

Her prior professional work has included coordinating housing and health research projects in academic healthcare settings, policy research and evaluation in black-led non-profit organizations, and co-founding a consulting firm providing program design, evaluation, and organizational change serves to the social service sector. Nishan’s work has been published in journals like Geoforum, BMC Public Health, and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.