Meet the Team

Co-founder | Director of Community Care & Consultation

Raghad El Niwairi is a Sudanese Black Muslimah living in London, Ontario. She grew up watching news broadcasting as a child and was, like many others, moved by the social issues she witnessed on TV.

Since then, she has committed most of her childhood and adolescence to hands-on community and advocacy work. This has led to her receiving various volunteer-based awards and to working on projects such as the InterAction Collective.

Continuing her community work and advocacy, she is currently the Co-founder and Director of Community Care & Consultation for the London School of Racialized Leaders.

Co-Founder | Director of Team & Narrative Building

Born in Milwaukee, raised in London ONT, Sarah is an eldest immigrant daughter of Malay-Palestinian descent. She is a neurodivergent polyglot who's lived experience as a mixed race diasporic woman fosters her passion for cross-cultural exchange, intersectional storytelling, and culture critiques. She was a Youth Critic and Outreach Coordinator for the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival community.

In 2017, Sarah recruited the Organizing Equality Student Coalition team. Together, they hosted teach-ins, roundtables, Solidarity Across the Spectrum panels and marginalized student reports at Western University.

Sarah’s leadership practice expanded to managing Rowa Mohamed’s municipal campaign in 2018. It was on the campaign trail that Sarah worked with Raghad and Noor for the first time. Together they were a team of working class, racialized women below the age of 30 — the first in London’s history.

Sarah consults for The On-Canada Project. Her equity advocacy and written work have been featured in CBC London, CTV, and TVO The Agenda.

As the Director of Team and Narrative Building, Sarah supports racialized leaders in capacity-building storytelling skills to reclaim narrative power and honor living memory. Her experiences in media industry supports the team’s relationship and narrative building efforts such as collaborating with Living Hyphen.

Co-founder | Director of Innovative Strategy

Noor is an award-winning Muslim Syrian first generation immigrant. Being a wunderkind, Noor started university at 16 and highly values the power of education. She is a healthcare upstreamist, a social entrepreneur and a polymathic eclectic creative with a background in Health Sciences, Business and Computer Science.

In 2016 and 2017, she won the Deah, Yusor & Razan Chapel Hill Shooting Community Service Award and Muslim Association of Canada’s Leadership Award. Noor’s role as Director of Innovative Strategy acts as an umbrella position capitalizing on her business knowledge and community partnerships to develop innovative growth opportunities; her strategies are research-based and community-oriented in nature.

Her lifelong goal is to reach closer to health equity, contribute to sustainable development goals, and live a life worthy of the Prophet (PBUH)’s presence.