{"id":9534,"date":"2026-04-17T13:27:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/?post_type=profile&p=9534"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:40:39","slug":"muna-udbi-ali","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/profile\/muna-udbi-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Muna-Udbi Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dr. Muna-Udbi A. Ali (she\/they) <\/strong>is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Environment and Urban Change (EUC), specializing in Black Studies in Geography and Environment, at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ in Toronto, Canada. Before joining the faculty of EUC, Ali worked as an Assistant Professor at California State University San Marcos, and as a Visiting Faculty member at Christopher Newport University in Virginia. Trained as an interdisciplinary scholar, her primary research covers diverse theoretical foci including Black studies, critical refugee and migration studies, critical race studies, Black feminist studies, Black geographies, transnational feminism, environmental justice, popular education, critical Muslim studies, public policy, critical pedagogy, and higher education studies.\u00a0She has published several book chapters and scholarly articles in journals including The Black Scholar<\/em>, Darkmatter<\/em>, Reconsidering Development<\/em>, and The Conversation<\/em>, among others.\u00a0Outside of academia, Ali is a community worker, curriculum and policy consultant, researcher, and anti-oppression educator. She has designed curricula and policies on gender-based violence, Afrocentric education, and anti-racist praxis. She has worked in education and curriculum development in Canada, United States, Kenya, and Somalia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keywords: Black Studies, Black geographies, Black feminist theories and methods, critical refugee studies, higher education studies, critical pedagogy, popular education, environmental justice, public policy, and surveillance studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[181,1081,922,918,920],"tags":[1490,1486,1245,275,1426,1487,1488,1485,1489,367],"class_list":["post-9534","profile","type-profile","status-publish","hentry","category-executive-committee","category-member-facultyfellow","category-genders-and-sexualities","category-labour-movement-and-mobility","category-politics-economics-and-social-justice","tag-and-surveillance-studies","tag-black-feminist-theories-and-methods","tag-black-geographies","tag-black-studies","tag-critical-pedagogy","tag-critical-refugee-studies","tag-environmental-justice","tag-higher-education-studies","tag-popular-education","tag-public-policy"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":181,"label":"Executive Committee"},{"value":1081,"label":"Faculty Fellow"},{"value":922,"label":"Genders and Sexualities"},{"value":918,"label":"Labour, Movement and Mobility"},{"value":920,"label":"Politics, Economics and Social Justice"}],"post_tag":[{"value":1490,"label":"and surveillance studies"},{"value":1486,"label":"Black feminist theories and methods"},{"value":1245,"label":"black geographies"},{"value":275,"label":"Black studies"},{"value":1426,"label":"Critical Pedagogy"},{"value":1487,"label":"critical refugee studies"},{"value":1488,"label":"environmental justice"},{"value":1485,"label":"higher education studies"},{"value":1489,"label":"popular education"},{"value":367,"label":"Public policy"}]},"featured_image_src_large":[],"author_info":[],"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}