Dr Sharin Shajahan Naomi completed her PhD in Tibetan Buddhism, feminism, and autoethnography at Murdoch University, Australia. She was awarded the Australian Leadership Award in 2010 to pursue a Master of Arts in Human Rights at Curtin University. She earned a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Dhaka, where she represented the university in national and international moot court competitions on international human rights law, receiving awards for mooting.

Dr Naomi worked as an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at the Asian University for Women, where she also served as the Head of the Core Programme from October 2021 to September 2022. In 2019, she received both the DHS Fellowship and the Cornell Climate Online Fellowship.

Her research and publications cover a wide range of topics, including feminism, anti-feminist backlash, disability, violence against women, women’s empowerment, online social movements, indigenous rights, human rights and humanitarian law, refugee rights, peace and conflict resolution, international relations and foreign policy, post-colonial knowledge, and environmental justice.