EDI Speaker Series: Addressing Islamophobia, Anti-Muslim rhetoric and the Social Service Needs of Muslim’s Living in Ontario

This event is for students only. Additional details will be shared in the MSW student digest.

Featured speakers

Amina Hussain is clinical supervisor, course instructor, and doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto and the current president of the Muslim Human Service Alliance. Amina previously worked as a clinical supervisor at a Muslim mental health agency in the GTA. She has also worked at CAMH, Ontario Shores, Women’s College Hospital, Baycrest, and is currently a clinical supervisor at the Talk It Out Clinic at the FIFSW. She actively mentors MSW students providing culturally inclusive, AOP based, and trauma informed care. She grounds her work in evidence-based research and has 23 publications related to improving social work practice, particularly with diverse communities.

Emad Alarashi is a Registered Social Worker with a Masters of Social Work degree from University of Toronto’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work where he specialized in Human Services Management and Leadership. Emad has ten years of experience working with diverse communities including those who identify as racialized, visible minority, newcomers, and marginalized populations within the GTA. Emad is currently employed with the City of Toronto’s Community Safety & Wellbeing Unit overseeing City-funded partner agencies providing the Community Violence Wellbeing & Recovery Project — a trauma informed counselling, case management, and holistic community healing approach to residents impacted directly and indirectly with violence. Emad is also employed as a Clinician and Community Outreach Manager with Khalil Center, a psychological and spiritual community wellness center advancing the professional practice of psychology rooted in Islamic principles. As a Constituency Council member with the Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Emad supports the exploration of the impacts of addiction and mental health on Muslim populations. Emad also sits as a board member of Ansaar Foundation.