Reena Shadaan

Dr. Reena Shadaan is the Staff Research Scholar in STS and Sustainability as well as an affiliate faculty member at the Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI) at the University of Toronto. 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.