Janusz Korczak Association of Canada Graduate Scholarship in Children’s Rights and Canadian Indigenous Education for 2020/21 was awarded to Asma Afreen.

Asma Afreen is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at UBC. Her research addresses identity, multilingualism, and multimodality, with a focus on Bangla heritage language learning.

She is a Global Storybooks team member and helped develop Storybooks Bangladesh, a free online literacy resource for learners of Bangla. Her work has been published in The Globe & Mail.

The Janusz Korczak Association of Canada would like to extend their congratulations to Asma for her achievement.