Harsha Walia (she/her) is an immigrant settler on unceded Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) lands. She has worked in frontline and leadership roles in the anti-violence and gender equity sector for twenty years, including at the Downtown Eastside Women's Center, Battered Women Support Services, Centre for Family Equity, and BC Civil Liberties Association. 

She has also been active in feminist, anti-racist, migrant justice, abolitionist, anti-capitalist, anti-colonial grassroots movements for the past two decades as a community organizer, facilitator, popular educator, and trainer. Harsha is also the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2014) and Border and Rule (2021),  as well as the co-author of many community-engaged reports such as Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration, Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women in Vancouver Downtown Eastside, and Colour of Violence: Race, Gender & Anti-Violence Services. Trained in the law, Harsha has made numerous presentations provincially, federally, and internationally on justice issues with a deep commitment to internationalism.