As the Principal Consultant at HYMIRE Consulting, Hawa Y. Mire is a proven strategic senior leader, equity consultant and community organizer with two decades of non-profit experience focused on high-impact community development. In 2017 she completed a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies from York University where her research examined community storytelling as a place of transformation.
Hawa is a critical writer, commentator and columnist with Ricochet Media that has been featured on Macleans, Briarpatch Magazine, Metro Morning, CBC, CityTV, Rabble among others. She was formerly the federal NDP Candidate for York South—Weston.
TESTIMONIAL
“Hawa is a community-engaged leader, writer, strategist and scholar. For Hawa the personal is political,
so she brings her whole self as a Black Somali Muslim woman to her endeavours. She is a widely
respected leader in the Somali diasporic community in Canada, and excels at directing clear focused
action for the welfare of Black and Somali diasporic communities. Through her intersectional approach
to leadership, Hawa represents and supports Black Muslim women. Hawa has a wealth of experience in
community-based non-profit service delivery situated in a human rights, equity and inclusion
framework.”
— Hawa Mire’s nominator, Dr. Sameena Eidoo
