Wati Rahmat is passionate about social justice - she strives to create awareness and amplify the voices of the disenfranchised in whatever space she occupies.
She is an occasional blogger and has been involved in community organizing in Edmonton, Montreal, and Singapore.
Wati volunteers for various initiatives supporting women's rights, solidarity/bridge building, and anti-racism efforts. She is also a busy mum to 3 beautiful boys.
“The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it’s the only way forward.”- Ijeomo Oluo, African American anti-racism activist
The Edmonton Muslim community was faced with Islamophobic aggressions within a span of two weeks in late January and early February of 2019. As a growing community of over 40,000 strong adherents or approximately 5.5% of the Edmonton population, this climate of hate rearing its ugly head so fresh into the new year, instills unease as to any potential escalation of Islamophobic acts and/or rhetoric with provisional and federal elections on our doorsteps.
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