Shireen Ahmed

Shireen Ahmed is a multiplatform journalist, a Senior Contributor with CBC Sports, a public speaker, and an award-winning Sports Activist focusing on the intersections of race and gender in sports. She is a global expert on Muslim women in Sports.

She is a 2019 TEDxToronto Speaker and is the national ambassador to Sakeenah Canada, an organization that offers essential services to women and families who have survived violence.

She has lectured and presented her work and research at a number of post-secondary institutions and organizations in Canada, Australia, the United States and Europe.

She is on the Board of Directors of Hijabi Ballers, a friend of Black Girl Hockey Club, part of the Executive Committee of the Muslim Women in Sports Network, and mentors students and budding sports journalists in official and casual capacities.

Shireen’s passion for sports, politics and women’s issues has been recognized by Sports Media for its candid discussions. Her work has been featured and discussed in The Guardian, TIME magazine, Sports Illustrated, The Walrus, Football Weekly, Racialicious, Chatelaine, The National Post, espnW, Globe and Mail, MSNBC Democracy Now! and TRT World. Shireen’s work was published in Best Canadian Sports Writing 2017. Her expertise is sought after by a host of international news outlets. In 2021, her academic work was published in Sports Media Vectors: Gender and Diversity, Reconstructing the Field.

She is part of the team of women who created the weekly Burn It All Down podcast. The first feminist sports podcast that analyzes sports culture from an intersectional feminist lens.

Shireen holds a Master of Arts degree with a specialty in Media Production. She currently teaches Journalism and Sport Media at Toronto Metropolitan University.

You can listen to Shireen's podcast, read Shireen's writing, listen to or watch her most recent appearances, see her past and upcoming events, read answers to her most frequently asked questions and answers to interviews she's completed, see testimonials about Shireen, view her blog, or get in touch.

Sub-specialties: Sports journalism/Sportswriting, Muslim women in Sports, Muslim women in Media, Women of Colour in Sports, Sexism and Misogyny in Sportswriting and Sports Journalism, Racism in Sportsmedia, Racism and Misogyny in Sport