What is the Role Cities Can Play in Building an Equitable Future? with Zahra Ebrahim

This conversation was recorded live. Andrea talks to one of Toronto Life’s “Tomorrow’s Titans”, Zahra Ebrahim. In this conversation, they Sense Make on the importance for cities to be built with equity in mind.

Think about it – what if rather than separate spaces for living, working and engaging, we create environments where diversity is encouraged, differences are celebrated and where engagement is the main goal. 

This past year has proven to us all the value and the importance of community. Now, we need to reflect this in how we construct, govern and manage the cities within which we live.

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About Zahra Ebrahim:

Public Interest Designer & Civic Entrepreneur

Recently named Next City’s Vanguard “40 under 40 Civic Leader”, Ascend Canada’s Mentor of the Year, one of “Tomorrow’s Titans” in Toronto Life, and in the WXN’s Top 100 Women in Canadian Business. Zahra is the co-founder and CEO of Monumental. Her professional practice has been focused on shifting power to people who are typically underrepresented in institutions and systems and has done so by designing deep, community-led approaches to policy, infrastructure, and service design. Zahra built and led Doblin Canada (Deloitte’s Human-Centred Design practice), led one of Canada’s first social design studios, archiTEXT, working with communities to co-design towards better social outcomes and leading some of Canada’s most ambitious participatory infrastructure and policy programs. Zahra has taught at OCADU, MoMA, and currently teaches at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She serves as an advisor for a range of organizations including Toronto Public Library, Progress Toronto, and Code for Canada, is the current Chair of the Board for Park People and previously served on the boards of Jane’s Walk, St. Stephen’s Community House, Toronto Biennial, Canadian Urban Institute.