asha
edwin
Professional Practice
I am an interdisciplinary scholar, educator, and practitioner who works with communities and organizations to develop thoughtful, research‑supported projects. My practice integrates teaching, qualitative inquiry, creative work, and collaborative program development, allowing me to support initiatives that respond meaningfully to people’s experiences.
Across my practice, I focus on building work that feels accessible, relevant, and supportive for the people and communities involved. I use interdisciplinary methods and creative tools to shape learning environments and collaborations that encourage reflection, connection, and grounded engagement.
I am drawn to work that pays attention to everyday living and the environments people move through. I enjoy curating, hosting, and facilitating initiatives that bring these experiences into thoughtful, intentional practice.
Research Practice
My research practice explores how people move through everyday life and how embodied experience, sensory engagement, and leisure shape learning and connection. I work with qualitative inquiry, visual media, and collaborative approaches to study lived experience in ways that feel grounded, accessible, and attentive to the environments people navigate.
I focus on interdisciplinary questions related to movement, everyday activity, and the social determinants of health. My work integrates interviews, observation, photography, and video to support research that is relational and community‑rooted.
I collaborate with academic partners and community organizations on projects that examine embodied experience, sport, leisure, and everyday living. Current work includes my doctoral research, projects with the IDEAS Research Lab, and research on Black girls’ perceptions of women’s professional sport.
Selected outputs include writing, presentations, visual media projects, and community‑based reports.
My Story
I developed an early interest in community engagement, movement, and wellness through my experiences in sports and exposure to health‑related work in my family. These foundations shaped how I understand everyday living and contributed to over a decade of work across community, non‑profit, corporate, and health and wellness spaces. Over time, these experiences deepened my focus on embodiment, sensory engagement, and leisure as meaningful ways of understanding how people learn, connect, and move through the world.
My educational path reflects this trajectory. I completed degrees in Political Science and Psychology before pursuing my Master of Education in Adult Education and Community Development at the University of Toronto, with a collaborative specialization in Workplace Learning and Social Change. I am now a PhD student in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Brock University, where my work is shaped by the social determinants of health, visual media, and writing.
Throughout my career, I have supported local and international projects focused on accessibility, education, equity, and development. My work has included policy reviews, environmental assessments, capacity‑building workshops, focus groups, and sector‑wide anti‑racism and anti‑oppression policy updates. Internationally, I have contributed to experiential learning and community development projects in Mississippi, Jamaica, and Kenya, supporting literacy programming, student leadership, and community‑based initiatives.
I am the Founder and Director of scholHER, a community‑rooted organization advancing racial and gender equity through research, programming, and collaborative practice. I am also the Founder and Director of ASHARE, a consulting practice specializing in anti‑racism, equity, and community development, where I support interdisciplinary projects and organizational development. Across all of my work, I foreground curiosity, communication, collaboration, and care, and I remain committed to practices that are reflective, connected, and responsive to the environments people move through.
Interdisciplinary Practice
Teaching Creative Practice and Methods Visual Projects Community Engagement Schoarly Inquiry and Writing Program Design
Leadership Partnership Hosting Facilitation