Dr. Satwinder Kaur Bains is Professor Emeritus in the School of Culture, Media and Society, College of Arts, at the University of the Fraser Valley. She recently retired as an award winning Director of the South Asian Studies Institute and as an Associate Professor. Dr Bains’ research interests include the impact of language, culture and identity on South Asian Canadian migration, settlement, and integration; anti-racist curriculum design implementation; identity politics; migration and the South Asian Canadian Diaspora, South Asian Canadian archival records, socio-cultural determinants of health for marginalized groups, Punjabi Canadian cultural historiography and EDI policy development and implementation. Dr Bains was also the inaugural VP Equity for the Faculty and Staff Union at UFV. Currently she is the Chair of the Knowledge Network Corporation, Chair of the Abbotsford Community Foundation and has served as a Commissioner on the Agricultural Land Commission, as a Director of the Fraser Basin Council, as a Bencher on the Law Society of British Columbia and as a member of the Farm Industry Review Board for British Columbia. She has also served on numerous Boards locally, nationally, and internationally and received recognition for her commitment to social justice, preservation of histories and cultural knowledge, women’s rights, service and research. She lives in Abbotsford and with her partner Parm and their three children and also helps support an international farming operation, shipping blueberries and strawberries around the world.