Laila Mourad is a PhD candidate at York University who adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the international development, political economy, and gender studies fields. Her research interests include alternative economies, social reproduction, as well as the localization of development. Recently, Laila is exploring how home-based labor in the ‘gig’ economy can inform and shape our understanding of the evolving notion of ‘work’. She examines how existing and emerging technologies transform the ways we envision household economies, societal relationalities and their role in development. In her personal life she coaches, trains and competes in kickboxing, to cultivate resilience and wellness.

Khaoula Bengezi is a PhD candidate at the Department of Politics and a graduate associate at the Centre for Feminist Research at York University. Currently Khaoula is researching global renewable energy transitions vis-à-vis clean energy technologies and how these visions impact farming communities in semi-arid desert landscapes and their environment. Khaoula’s approaches are informed by an array of intersecting interdisciplinary approaches including global environmental governance, critical science and technology scholarship and decolonial and feminist political ecology. Moreover, for the past three years she has been the program coordinator for Righting Relations Hamilton, a movement of adult educators and community organizers who work towards decolonization and social change on Turtle Island.

Rawan Nabil (she/her) is a second year Political Science PhD student at York University, as well as a community organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement in Tkaronto. Her research focuses on environmental colonialism and racism, with an ecofeminist lens. Currently, she is researching neoliberalism in Palestine and gendered violence. Her PhD dissertation aims to look at anti-capitalist practices and food sovereignty as pathways to reclaiming Palestinian self-determination. Rawan is committed to collective liberation and seeks to envision a world beyond the carceral states that currently exist. Her organizing is focused on a joint-struggle lens that offers a vision of joint liberation for all colonized and oppressed peoples.