Yara Abdelaziz is a Ph.D. candidate in the Education Leadership & Policy program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto with over 8 years of research experience. She specializes in Comparative International and Development Education (CIDE), where she has previously served as a co-chair of its student association. Recently, she co-authored a paper with Dr. Elizabeth Buckner published in Educational Researcher, exploring Global Wealth-Based inequality in higher education access. She is currently working on a co-authored publication with Dr. Francine Menashy exploring racial inequities in the humanitarian aid sector. Yara is an active board member of the Association for Middle Eastern Women's Studies. Her research focuses on investigating international organizations' educational policies and their implications for teachers' work in the Arab world. She has extensive experience working in several non-profit organizations in the Arab world.
