Zuraida shares her experience growing up in South Africa and how she was treated with segregation and racism. She stayed resilient in the face of injustice and lives by UBUNTU, which is a group and community acknowledgment of the role played in racism and to be an ally in this regard. She notes we are all interconnected.
Zuraida was a child of apartheid South Africa. She lived in South Africa until immigrating to Canada in 2006. She has the lived experience of being an anti apartheid activist as well as being part of the first wave of BIPOC intelligencia to transform South Africa to a democracy. Her lived experience of living under racism and helping to transform South Africa to a democracy has forged her passion for social justice. She considers herself to be a social justice advocate in all avenues of life, be it advocating and petitioning for social and legal changes at a macro level (such as changing legislation, changing organisation policies and procedures) to individual level (micro level change) by helping her clients to connect with their inner selves and their inner strengths and building their resiliency to deal with day to day challenges. She is a licenced psychologist in Alberta, Ontario and in South Africa. She shared university classes with Winnie Mandela and shared the same alma maters as Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
