May El-Abdallah

May El-Abdallah is a lawyer based in Toronto. She has dedicated herself to community building for nearly two decades, working with organizations such as Artreach Toronto, the South Asian Legal Clinic, Maytree’s DiverseCity Fellows, the Canadian Association of Muslim Women in Law, and the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association. In 2015, May was selected as a Canadian Arab Institute “Canadian Arab to Watch”. She is one of the co-founders of Indigenous Land Defence Across Borders, a coalition of Palestinian and Indigenous women and 2-spirit people from Turtle Island that organized a delegation to Palestine in 2018. May is an avid appreciator of the arts and occasionally speaks publicly.