Introducing Thamina

Hi everyone! My name is Thamina Jaferi and I am a Senior Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Consultant at Turner Consulting Group. I am excited to be a part of the team at TCG working alongside knowledgeable, experienced, and passionate EDI practitioners who truly care about barrier-removal for people of all walks of life. 

By way of background about myself, I am a lawyer by profession who always had a passion for EDI and utilizing my legal expertise and skills towards ensuring that workplaces and service environments are as inclusive as they can be of diversity. My work experience has spanned a variety of public and private sector organizations including the federal and provincial governments, municipal transportation industry, higher education, and entertainment.

My lived experience as a second generation hijab-wearing Muslim Canadian woman of South Asian origin has informed much of my equity lens and as a result I am intimately familiar with the ways in which systems perpetuate inequities and discrimination. I am very eager to learn from others and work with organizations collaboratively on developing strategies and plans to address inequity and promote EDI within their operations. I have experience in EDI policy review and development, training development and delivery, creation of EDI Advisory Committees and Councils, and EDI issues management. 

​I look forward to sharing my perspective on different EDI topics in this blog and engaging with you in an interesting discussion of your thoughts!