Zuhra Abawi

Zuhra Abawi is an assistant professor of education at Niagara University and Chair of the Master of Educational Leadership program. Prior to her faculty appointment, she was an elementary teacher and early childhood educator. She holds a doctorate in social justice education from the University of Toronto. Her teaching experience spans K–12 to higher education. She is the author of The Effectiveness of Educational Policy for Bias-Free Hiring: Critical Insights to Enhance Diversity in the Canadian Teacher Workforce (2021) and co-editor of Equity as Praxis in Early Childhood Education and Care (2021) and Enacting Anti-Racist and Activist Pedagogies in Education: Canadian Perspectives (2023) and Activist Leadership for Inclusive Schools: Canadian Perspectives (2025). Her work focuses on how discourses of race, equity, and identity are negotiated, mediated, and socialized in education.