ZEINA ISMAIL- ALLOUCHE, Ph.D.
Senior Child Protection and Communications for Behavioral Results Expert
An activist, autoethnographer, performer, and storyteller with over 20 years of experience in designing, implementing and monitoring strategic, integrated, multidisciplinary, and participatory reform plans in support of preventing violence against children and youth with a special focus on gender-based violence and preventing forced separation.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
I am currently assuming the role of Director of Partnerships and Program Development with the Canadian Practitioners Network for the Prevention of Violent Extremism (CPN-PREV) – UQAM University. I am also a Research Associate – CSLP Research Coordinator at the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP), Concordia University
See my experience, courses taught, and education here
Knowledge Mobilization
During my long years of field work and academic teaching/learning, I have contributed to many publications advocating for child protection with a special focus on Gender Based Violence and the rights of children without parental care. I also collaborated on writing a book chapter on Indigenous youth leaving care.
In 2021, I produced a Child Protection Policy in Media for Kafa (enough) Violence & Exploitation and UNICEF in Lebanon.
Communicating my learnings from the field and academia had led me to participating in many forums to share, exchange, and advocate for social justice. You will find here a full list of my publications.
ARTS BASED PRACTICE
My arts based practice is derived from my commitment to decolonize my approaches while amplifying the voices of the historically silenced groups.
Grounded in Indigenous Methodologies, performing my autoethnography is a pathway for positionality and a journey towards unsettling the colonial in me.
Board member (Students’ representative, 2019-2020),
Board member (Core affiliates’ representative 2023-2025)
Centre for Oral History and Digital Story Telling, Concordia University.
Co-Founder
Badael-Alternatives.
Beirut-Lebanon.
Board member, Worldwide Alumni Association, American University of Beirut, Montreal Chapter, 2018 to 2021