Omar Yaqub DSL ICD.D MBA BSc, serves the team at IslamicFamily, a social change organization that is disrupting systemic inequity through service, research & beauty. During his time with IslamicFamily the organization has become a multi-award winning Imagine Canada accredited charity. He is a former Historian Co-Laureate for the City of Edmonton & past instructor in the MBA program at the University of Alberta. He has two decades of experience in the for-benefit sector. Omar has been awarded a honorary doctorate from St Stephen’s College, EMCN’s RISE award for Community Leadership, and the University of Alberta’s Co-op Mentorship Award. He is a settler on Treaty 6.
