Niki Oveisi

Niki is the Associate Director of Free Periods Canada Foundation, and has worked tirelessly to promote menstrual equity and address period poverty in the country. Niki’s participation in the menstrual equity movement gave her the power to celebrate menstruation, and disrupt barriers surrounding cultural stigma and menstruation in her community.She is also a Pharmaceutical Sciences PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia using both qualitative and quantitative data to explore the impact of cancer treatments on the psychosocial, sexual, and reproductive outcomes of adolescent and young adult cancer patients.Her community engaged advocacy has been consistently funded by groups such as the UBC Centre for Community Engaged Learning, UBC Global Lounge, Mount Royal University, UBC Alma Mater Society, and more.