Najwa Zebian is a Lebanese-Canadian activist, author, speaker, and educator. After self-publishing her first collection of poetry and prose in 2016, she went on to become a teacher and a doctoral candidate in educational leadership. Her three books of poetry have combined to sell over 250,000 copies, and she recently launched the digital school Soul Academy and the podcast Stories of the Soul. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Glamour, Elle Canada, HuffPost, and more, and her TEDx talk "Finding Home Through Poetry" has been viewed over 100,000 times.