Name: Niyosha Keyzad (Co-Founder) Email: niyosha.keyzad@utoronto.ca
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Bio: Niyosha holds an Honours BSc (with Distinction) from UTSC, with a double major in Evolutionary Anthropology and English, and a Masters of Arts in American and Postcolonial Literatures from McGill University. She is a current PhD Candidate at the Department of English and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. Her doctoral work focuses on memoirs of the Iranian diaspora, literatures of exile and displacement, and theories of space and identity. She has previously served as the Founding President of the Race and Ethnicity Caucus of the University of Toronto Graduate Students’ Union, and Co-Chair of the Diversity Committee at Massey College, where she is a Junior Fellow. Niyosha’s work on Scarborough Studies was recently recognized by the UofT School of Cities, with a Graduate Fellowship Award. Niyosha currently teaches critical writing (ENGA02) at the Department of English at the University of Toronto Scarborough.