Our work is to remind you of your innate capacity to shape change, by practicing what it means to be good future ancestors and honoring our relational responsibility to each other, lands and waters, and the ecosystems we are part of.
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Sabrina (she/they) is the Founder and change alchemist at Pause and Effect. After more than a decade as a practicing designer, researcher, HR business partner and product manager, Sabrina poured her spirit and resources into building a brand that proudly lives into its values with integrity.
Sabrina is the descendant of Sindhi Muslim Gujarati ancestors, whom, through forced migration found home in East Africa and later, in so called Canada. She brings their lessons of survival through collective care and communal responsibility into her vision for flourishing futures.
Sabrina is a member of the Liberated Planet Studio - a practice space for artists and activists, interested in ecological and movement research at the intersection of social and environmental justice.
Outside of work with Pause and Effect, Sabrina satiates her imagination through sci-fi. She currently helps cultivate and tend to the Moberly Medicine Garden, and is co-establishing a mutual aid fieldhouse called the Earthseed Collective (with the mission of increased community climate resilience and food sovereignty through culturally-rooted programming) alongside Daniela Gurerrero-Rodrigues and Alisha Lettman.
Above all things, Sabrina is an Auntie who cares deeply about the world her niblings will inherit.
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My teachers are plentiful, and I know this long list isn’t near complete. All that you engage with through Pause and Effect has been shaped through relationship. My gratitude extends to the following beings and lands for inspiring, holding, teaching, and changing me.
Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh Host Nations, whom have remained steadfast in their resistance and defence of these lands and waters
Yusuf, my late Grandfather who's advice and prayers keep me here
Mother Earth (special shout out to Blackberry bush) who has nourished my body, held me through grief, and been a collaborator and teacher in my process
Octavia Butler, author of Parable of the Sower, for reminding me that change can be shaped through wisdom, forethought, community, and practice
Robin Wall-Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, for reminding me of the animacy of this world, and for helping me reconnect with the land through story
adrienne maree brown (author of Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Fables and Spells) for being a guiding light through the inception and continued emergence of Pause and Effect
Vanessa Andreotti, author of Hospicing Modernity and member of Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures
Mathura “Temwa” Mahendren, a dear friend who helped me uncover the playfull-est and free-ist version of me, showed me the art of shaping experiences through love, and is the brilliant author of Dismantling the Master’s Tools
Sophie Strand and Bayo Akamolafe for inspiring me to see weirdness as a revolutionary posture
Liberated Planet Studio collective (for gifting me community to practice, move and create with)
Countless podcast episodes produced by For the Wild