Shireen Ahmed
Shireen Ahmed is a multi-platform Senior Contributor with https://www.cbc.ca/sports, a TEDx speaker, a valued mentor, and an award-winning sports activist focusing on the intersections of racism and misogyny in sports. She is a global expert on Muslim women in sport. Her analysis of culture, politics and sports is one of the most caught-after globally. Shireen is the co-creator and co-host of the “http://burnitalldownpod.com/” feminist sports podcast and teaches Sports Journalism and Sports Media at Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada. She is happily married, has four amazing kids and has a phenomenal cat named Sitara. She drinks coffee as a tool of resistance.