Vijaya has been an avid collaborator and worker in the fields of HIV/AIDS, sexual health and gender equity in Toronto and internationally for over ten years. She is currently the Executive Director at the Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention (ASAAP) and a Board member at Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre in Toronto. Vijaya has a BA in Political Science and an MSc in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and is dedicated to continued and lifelong learning. After spending the first 15 years of her life between India and Dubai, Vijaya migrated to Canada with a deep and personal investment in the complexity of identity and its intersections with health, place, race, class, gender, violence and ability.