Who We Are

ACASN Co-founder

Dr. Shuhiba Mohammad obtained her BSc. at the University of Guelph in Biomedical Sciences as a part of the class of 2012. She went on to complete a Masters in Biomedical Sciences (MBS '13) at the University of Guelph, followed by a Master of Science (MSc '16) in Experimental Medicine at Queen's University. Her love of studying pregnancy, and more specifically, the placenta, sent her to the University of Ottawa, where she completed a Doctorate in Philosophy in Human Kinetics in 2022.

Dr. Mohammad is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Calgary, in the Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She currently studies placental development using novel models of human trophoblast stem cells. Dr. Mohammad is currently funded by the Molly Towell Perinatal Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the Acheivers in Medical Science Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Calgary.

Dr. Mohammad is excited to share her insights to support the next generation of Afghan-Canadian academics.

ACASN Co-founder

Moska Rokay is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. She obtained her Honours Bachelor of Arts in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations in 2016 and went on to complete a Master of Information in Archives and Records Management in 2019, both at the University of Toronto. It was her passion for Afghan storytelling, in our own words, as a form of narrative resistance and the preservation of Afghan cultural heritage that guided her toward a doctoral degree in archival studies. Her doctoral research project examines the archives, representations, and production of Afghan refugee narratives in Canada. She explores these topics through the creation of an intergenerational digital counter-archive of Afghan refugee oral histories that amplifies their lived experiences and stories, on their own terms, contributing to existing knowledge in critical refugee studies and developing refugee-centered archival practices.

Moska is a 2024 Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Scholar and her research has been graciously funded by a SSHRC CGS-Doctoral Award.