About This Speaker: Zahra Ebrahim
Zahra Ebrahim is the Co-Founder of Monumental. She is an award-winning strategist, educator, and public interest designer. She is known for her innovative, cross-sectoral work and is an established bridge builder across grassroots and institutional spaces.
Over the last twenty years, she has focused on community-led approaches to policy, infrastructure, and service design as well as building teams that can implement bold and innovative initiatives. Prior to Monumental, she built and led Doblin Canada, Deloitte’s Human-Centred Design practice.
In her early career, Zahra led one of Canada’s first social design studios, working with communities to co-design towards better social outcomes, leading some of Canada’s most ambitious participatory infrastructure and policy programs.
Zahra is currently an Urbanist-in-Residence at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, and an Adjunct Professor at the Daniels School of Architecture. She has been recognized as a Next City Vanguard Civic Leader, Ascend Canada’s Mentor of the Year, one of WXN’s Top 100 Women in Canadian Business, and most recently recognized as one of the Urban Land Institute’s WLI Champions.
Zahra is currently a Board member of the Toronto Arts Council, and the Board Chair for Park People. Her work has been featured across international media, and she regularly delivers speaking engagements to audiences across the country. Her forthcoming book, Messy Cities, will be released by Coach House Books in 2025.
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