Sharin Shajahan Naomi

Sharin Shajahan Naomi is an experienced researcher, academic, social worker and public speaker with multiple publications under her name. Her awards and grants include the Australian Leadership Award 2010, the Cornell Climate Online Fellowship, and the DHS (Demographic Health Survey) Fellowship by the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2019. In 2024, Naomi will complete a postdoctoral fellowship at KREA University of India and join the Independent University of Bangladesh as an assistant professor. 

Naomi holds a PhD from Murdoch University, Australia, as well as a master of arts in human rights from the Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University. She completed her bachelor of law from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Naomi has more than ten years of research experience in the fields of law, human rights, gender, good governance, violence against women, Indigenous rights, disability, feminism and anti-feminist backlash. She has five years of teaching experience at Asian University for Women, where she served as the head of the core program for a year. Forbes China featured a story on her teaching on Ecofeminism. She has also worked for BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health in Bangladesh. She is the chairperson of the youth organization ‘Actionist Bangladesh’ which works to promote mental health awareness.