Maryam is a runaway lawyer, serial social entrepreneur and social innovation evangelist. Her work centers ‘dialogues of wisdoms’ and explorations around alternate ways of knowing, doing and being to decolonize social innovation and entrepreneurship. Maryam believes in enabling innovators to trigger transformative change in themselves and their communities, and through that process co-create more equitable, regenerative systems.
Maryam previously co-founded the Social Innovation Lab, a social innovation ecosystem builder in South Asia and Daftarkhwan, a series of co-working spaces in Pakistan, alongside starting a number of impact focused initiatives. She is also an Acumen Fellow, an International Youth Foundation Laureate Global Fellow, and holds B.A. and LL.B. degrees from LUMS University and an LL.M. in International Law from the University of California, Berkeley.
Maryam is currently the JEDI+A advocate at the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience, a Senior Fellow at Social Innovation Canada, a Senior Consultant at the Center for Social Innovation, and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Foresight Canada. She is also a PhD Candidate in Sustainability Management at the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Environment.