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Iman Baobeid is a Yemeni communications specialist and artist based on the unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh). She brings a background in communications and campaigns from her work at the BC Civil Liberties Association, Equity and Inclusion Office at the University of British Columbia, and as a graphic designer with the “Yemen Speaks” Conflict Testimony Campaign. Iman holds an MA in Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice and a BA in Sociology and Law from the University of British Columbia, where she examined post-conflict nation-state transformation, Islamic legal history, and gender relations in Yemen. Her art and writing are embedded in the archives – living, oral, and written – as she seeks to unpack the impact of successive wars in Yemen on its people from intersectional feminist and post-colonial lenses. Iman is committed to transformative justice as a path towards our collectively liberated futures.