PhD, is a multi-migrant and unwilling settler on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal, Quebec). She is a queer poetess and introverted nerd with Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian roots. Her scholarship and practice articulate language, envision futurity, and lay ground to stand/wheel/dance on with folks for whom this has been violently denied or has yet to exist.

Hiba is a part-time Assistant Professor in the occupational therapy program at McGill University, where she partners with community members to teach on Indigenous topics. Clinically, Hiba has worked in inpatient psychiatry, arts-based rehabilitation, an assertive community treatment team, student counselling services, and a refugee camp. She has now established an accessible psychotherapy practice and works both in traditional individualized therapy and in community spaces with emergent adults navigating the intersections of multiple marginalized/precarious social locations. Hiba also consults on social accountability initiatives, including on the advisory group for Indigenous engagement in the development of the 2021 ‘Culture, equity and justice’ required competencies for Canadian occupational therapists.

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