our advisors.
Shreela Chakrabartty
Shreela is the director half of Shreela & Kash films. She was born, however, into her father’s documentation project that shaped her Canadian life and community in Edmonton. The Indo Canadian Women’s Association, where Shreela first met Dr. Zohra Husaini, can be credited with jump starting her career in film through commissioned documentary projects. Her storytelling approach led to working with Deepa Mehta on ‘Water’ and then becoming a director on her own highly acclaimed movies ‘Lake Shore Drive’ and ‘Rock Paper Dice Enter’ and documentaries ‘Punjabi Pioneers of Alberta’ and ‘Spirits: Swami Vivekananda’s Passage Through Canada in 1893’. She is currently writing short stories based on her father’s memoir ‘A Pebble On The Beach’. dolceveda.com
Satya Das
Satya’s current role as an influential strategist, adviser, writer and storyteller is built on an impactful decades long career as a barrier-breaking journalist. A catalyst in setting the table for inclusion, Satya was among the first Canadian journalists of colour who rose to the top of their profession when many barriers of systemic racism needed to be overcome. In 1975, he was the first person of colour to join the Press Gallery of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was also the first editorialist and foreign correspondent of colour in Canada, and among the first three masthead columnists at national newspapers. At a time of division, he championed the idea of Canadian values to reflect and include the diversity of human experience, to build a country where people of all origins enjoy a life of meaning and purpose.
Monia Mazigh
Monia Mazigh is an academic, award-winning Canadian author and human rights activist. She writes in French and English and has authored so far, a memoir, three novels, an essay and a collection of short stories, celebrated by the critique. Her latest novel, Farida won the Ottawa Book Award for French fiction. Monia Mazigh is an Adjunct and research Professor at Carleton University at the Department of English and Literature. Her new memoir/essay, “Gendered Islamophobia: My Journey with a Scar(f)”, has been a finalist for the Governor General literary award in the non-fiction category for 2023. Monia was a columnist with ONFr+ and Radio-Canada. She published several articles with the Ottawa Citizen, the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star and regularly contributes to Islamic Horizons.