Nuzhat Jafri, Executive Director, Canadian Council of Muslim Women

Nuzhat Jafri is the Executive Director (ED) of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW) and has served as President and long-time national board member and volunteer with the Council. She has also served as chair and member of several other non-profit boards. Nuzhat has wide-ranging leadership experience in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Prior to her current role, she served as the Executive Director of the Office of the Fairness Commissioner from 2007 to 2017. Her experience spans leadership roles in legislative and policy development and compliance, communications, and human resources.

Nuzhat is an untiring advocate for human rights, equity, inclusion and accessibility and grounds her work in intersectional anti-oppression/anti-racism frameworks. She has a B.A. in French language and literature from the University of Toronto and a Master’s from the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Western Ontario. She lives in Toronto and enjoys being a grandmother among many of her occupations.