Gada Mahrouse is Associate Professor at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, where she teaches and researches in the areas of critical race studies, cultural studies, transnational feminist and post/de-colonial theories. Her book, entitled Conflicted  Commitments: Race, Privilege and Power in Transnational Solidarity Activism, focuses on the challenges of solidarity across asymmetrical power relations (McGill Queens University Press, 2014).