Sana Shah

Sana Shah is a PhD candidate in at the University of Waterloo in the department of Sociology and Legal Studies. With a Bachelor of Arts in Women’s and Gender Studies and a Master of Arts in Social Justice and Equity Studies, her work broadly focuses on gender-based violence, colonial violence, sex-trafficking, intersectionality, and feminist thought. Her research critically examines the vulnerability of Indigenous women and girls to physical and sexual violence, through a focus on colonial structures and state complicity. Building on her master’s thesis that critically examined the media representations of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, her PhD dissertation lays emphasis on the legal landscape of domestic sex trafficking in Canada.