'Bridge-builder' Dr. Fatima Coovadia strengthens Saskatoon community connections

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.“It really impacts everything I do, and I guess that’s what really got me interested in the human rights work and field that I am in right now,” she said of her experience.

Sunni Muslim campus faith leader Fatima Coovadia, right, talks with students at the Good Breakfast program, a weekly breakfast hosted by faith leaders on the University of Saskatchewan campus in Saskatoon in 2020.The story of her journey, in part, begins after she returned to South Africa before coming back to Canada. There, she earned her Bachelor of Dental Science degree and became a practising dentist.

When her eldest child was four years old, Coovadia became involved in his school; that has continued as her two younger children entered the school system. She’s served on parent councils and preschool boards. Having studied within the Canadian education system, she also had an “immigrant perspective” to share, which was a resource for friends who worked in the system. She was called into classrooms to speak about her experience living under Apartheid, or as a Muslim woman who wears a hijab.

When she thinks about what laid the foundation for her accomplishments, she sums it up in one word: relationships. They opened doors and new paths she couldn’t have imagined.She wants to see herself as someone who paves the way forward and creates spaces for people who aren’t often represented, around tables where their voices need to be heard for the betterment of society, she said.

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