Shama Dossa
Co-Lead Fenomenal Funds

Dr. Shama Dossa is a feminist activist-scholar located in Karachi, Pakistan and has held a number of international leadership positions as both a learning and evaluation practitioner and academic. Shama graduated from University of Toronto with a PhD in Adult Education and Community development and specializes in participatory approaches to learning and community building, action research and arts-informed research. Her current research work focuses on collaborative decolonizing anti-racist practices in learning and evaluation within philanthropy. She has worked with national women’s movements in Pakistan as well as in the Asia Pacific Region . She identifies as a Muslim Woman of Colour, and currently serves as Chair of the Board for Shirkat Gah Women’s Resource Center, one of the oldest national feminist organizations in Pakistan. She is also Associate Professor in Social Development and Policy at Habib University in Karachi where she teaches program planning, evaluation and research. Her work has been published by the Journal of Sociological Fiction, Gender and Development, Kohl, Alliance, the Routledge Handbook of Women in South Asia, Dawn Newspaper, University of London Press and Gareja Press.