Integrity. Honesty. Wisdom. Humour. Fortitude.

Dr. Nadia Mallay (she/her/hers) brings these qualities to equity work and has positively impacted local, provincial, national and global organizations and communities through her career and extensive community engagement. As an authentic thought leader, trailblazer and long-standing equity advocate, Nadia challenges established norms with empathy, strength and via a trauma-informed lens. Dr. Mallay brings deep knowledge of institutional systems, the field of education, equity theory and practice, and change management. She refuses to uphold and recreate systems of oppression.

Professionally, Nadia has worked nationally and internationally bringing an immigrant settler perspective and global perspective to her work. To date, Dr. Mallay has worked to establish an inaugural equity office to support diverse members of a large provincial professional union, embedded equity in research projects including those funded by the Tri-agencies, held an inaugural executive leadership role as vice-president at a postsecondary institution where she notably established an inaugural budget and multiple new leadership and staffing positions, developed nationally recognized equity frameworks, wrote special programs applications for hiring and retention of Black staff and Indigenous staff, co-developed custom assessment software, created continual improvement and change management processes, developed courses, taught provincial, national and international curricula, and more! Dr. Mallay has also worked with government officials, and stakeholders in the public and private sectors.

In community, Nadia has over twenty years of unpaid community service, recently as Elizabeth Fry (EFry) Society of Greater Vancouver Board member, Vice-Chair, Trustee, and member of the Finance Committee of the North Vancouver City Library Governance Board, and as past President and Chair of the North Shore Restorative Justice Society Board.

Academically, Dr. Mallay has taken up postdoctoral work with a focus on Communities of Practice and knowledge of care in the field of Palliative Care. She completed her doctoral degree with a focus on educational leadership, change management and leveraging institutional mechanisms for greater equity, diversity, accessibility and inclusion. Nadia’s focus of study stemmed from her experiences being a racialized Black woman born in Canada and the child of immigrants, and from over a decade living around the world.

Nadia is excited to help you with your projects and events.