Reena Shadaan

Dr. Reena Shadaan is the Staff Research Scholar in STS and Sustainability. Shadaan is an award-winning community-based and justice-oriented researcher with a PhD in Environmental Studies. Her work intersects environmental, occupational, and reproductive justice and focuses on community-defined embodied and experiential knowledges. To date, Shadaan’s focus has spanned various sites of chemical violence and subsequent resistance – from Bhopal, India (site of the Bhopal gas disaster) to Canada’s “Chemical Valley” and to Greater Toronto Area-based nail salons.