Alya Jinah is the Senior Specialist for Democracy, Justice, and Sustainability with the Institutes for Transdisciplinary Scholarship at the University of Calgary. Alya brings a unique perspective to matters of just societies, equitable access, and modes of belonging. She has long felt that such matters require transdisciplinary solutions, and for this reason she is thrilled to join such a timely, necessary initiative. Additionally, her interdisciplinary education and career have allowed her to meet and serve people from various disciplines and backgrounds including business, engineering, education, and health. Alya leads with curiosity and empathy and has come to the team after launching key UCalgary initiatives including the Creative Destruction Lab – Rockies (CDL) which creates a place for diverse deep-science and technology-based companies to find mentorship and investment to grow to unprecedented levels, and the Trico Foundation Social Entrepreneurship Centre where she created empowering experiences for the mentors, ventures, students, and partners, helping collaborators learn that business can be used as a source for good.