An advocate for social justice and children’s rights and an oral history/autoethnography storyteller and performer, I have worked for more than 20 years in the field of child

protection, especially with children forced to separate from their families. I have
contributed to international initiatives to promote family strengthening aiming
at preventing separation, participated in the drafting of the Guidelines for
the Alternative Care for Children (2009), and co-established
Badael-Alternatives ( http://badael-alternatives.org/), an NGO based in Lebanon
to advocate for the rights to origins for the survivors who were illegally
adopted out during the wartime.

I was appointed as apublic scholar (2019-2020) and I completed my Individualized Ph.D. in Artsand Social Science, at Concordia University in 2021.

My oral history performance was grounded in Indigenous methodologies and
was based on the life stories of individuals who have experienced transracial
or intercountry adoption through a collaborative research-creation using
headphones verbatim.

I have assumed leadership positions within many international organizations . I also served asa national director of an organization that specialized in alternative care.

With more than 7years of experience in university teaching,  I am grounded in decolonized approaches to learning.  

I contributed to many publications advocating for child protection with a special
focus on Gender-Based Violence, transracial/international adoption, and the
rights of children without parental care.