Zebunisa Ladak

Born, brought up, educated and married in Bombay (now known as Mumbai), India. Zebunisa belongs to Shia Ismaili Muslim community headed by His Highness the Aga khan, who is the 50th hereditary Imam direct descendant of Prophet Mohammed. She obtained her Bachelor of Commerce (Honours), Post Graduate Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and Master of Arts in Islamic studies (MA), all from Mumbai, University. After moving to Tanzania, East Africa she completed her second post graduate Master’s degree in Community Economic Development from South New Hampshire University a program jointly conducted with the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Zeb’s first Indigenous organization journey was with Nisga’a T’samik Vancouver Society where she worked for 8 years. She then joined Coastal First Nations on contract basis for 2 years, and finally she joined MVAEC & MVISS in 2019. Both in India and Tanzania she traveled extensively to smaller towns where the Ismaili community lived to know their problems and challenges and offer solutions as also to give them a feeling of belonging to the mainstream community living in bigger towns and cities. In all these Not for Profit, community institutions, she has held positions of responsibilities and been responsible for the performance of the institutions’ mandate making significant progress whilst remaining on track with the action plans and budgetary provisions. Her interests include reading books on subjects mainly relation to Islamic history, culture, values and ethics. Traveling to places of historical and cultural significance. Listening to old Bollywood Movie songs.