With Palestinian parents, Noora Sharrab had to fight long and hard to push past their traditional “Walk By The Walls” mentality to embrace her Palestinian identity. She launched SITTI Soap, a social venture that helps Palestinian women refugees earn equitable income, using cultural practices and traditional wisdom, like Tatreez patterns and olive oil soap pressing, to make apparel, accessories, bath and beauty products, and more. Each product tells a story of Palestinian culture and roots.

Bayan left Aleppo, Syria when she was 7 years old, after her father escaped from prison for protesting The Assad Regime. Bayan’s activism in Canada includes translating a powerful memoir of human rights violations in Syria, community organization, and co-founding The Syrian Canadian Foundation.