Advice & Consultation
Trusted advice for organizations addressing discrimination, building inclusive policy, or navigating human rights crises.
Advisory areas:
Who this serves: Governments, nonprofits, corporations, advocacy organizations
About Amira Elghawaby
Building systems for accountability
Amira Elghawaby has confronted discrimination from every angle. She documented it as a journalist. She built the country's first federal office to address it, as Canada's inaugural Special Representative on Combating Islamophobia. Now she carries that work forward independently — with the clarity that comes from having done it at every level.
Over two decades, Amira has worked across media, human rights, and public policy — in journalism at CBC and the Toronto Star, and in leadership roles with the National Council of Canadian Muslims and the Canadian Race Relations Foundation. As Special Representative (2023–2026), she advised the federal government and led the creation of the Canadian Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia. Her work has been recognized with the King Charles III Coronation Medal (2025) and the Jack Layton Progress Prize (2026).
Across all of it, Amira connects the dots: from discrimination to democratic breakdown, from representation to real power, from rhetoric to accountability.
Key milestones
- Canada's first Special Representative on Combating Islamophobia
- Award-winning journalist and advocate
- Advisor to governments, organizations, and civil society
Advisory & Speaking
Strategic guidance for organizations navigating complexity
Speeches & Commentary
Delivering keynotes and panels that bring clarity to polarization, representation, and the health of our democracy.
Topics include:
Who this serves: Conference organizers, media outlets, universities, policy forums
Research & Writing
Writing op-eds and analysis that connect local discrimination to global patterns — grounded in journalism, policy expertise, and lived experience.
Writing focus:
Who this serves: Editors, publications, policy organizations, research institutions
The Newsroom
Analysis, commentary, insight
Explore a collection of resources, articles, and commentary related to discrimination, democracy, and civic participation — work that continues to inform audiences in Canada and around the world.
Video
Interview
Together for Canada – Ibrahim
Through his past painful experiences, Ibrahim shares what it means to help others with a renewed sense of purpose.
September 3, 2026 Read more →
Op-Ed
Reflecting on the Quebec Mosque Attack: What Canada can learn from Norway’s response
As a society, we must ask ourselves whether Quebec City residents, Quebecers, and indeed all Canadians are missing a vital opportunity: to educate young people about the clear dangers — and potentially deadly consequences — of hate, Islamophobia and violent extremism. There is much we can learn from Norway, a country which has also experienced lethal hate.
June 7, 2026 Read more →
Video
Commentary
From Historic First to What's Next: Amira Elghawaby on Combatting Islamophobic in Canada
Three years after her historic appointment as Canada’s first Special Representative on Combating Islamophobia, Amira Elghawaby returns to Unpacking Islamophobia to reflect on her landmark tenure, and what its end means for Canadian Muslims. Elghawaby reflects on her time in office and her institutional work in combating anti-Muslim racism in Canada.
June 7, 2026 Read more →Follow for latest updates
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