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Abinaya Balasubramaniam

Abinaya Balasubramaniam

Junior Researcher, TPS project

Abinaya Balasubramaniam is a researcher, artist, and community activist. Prior to joining Wellesley Institute, she worked at the University of Toronto and Women’s College Research Institute. She has worked internationally in Kenya, Namibia, and with the United Nations Women headquarters in New York City. At Wellesley, Abinaya is working in the areas of housing, policing, and equity.

Abinaya holds a Master’s degree in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toronto, where she focused on mainstream media’s gendered and racialized representations of inner-city neighborhoods.

Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.