Helene Ijaz, Ph.D., is a consultant and mediator in the areas of cross-cultural, interracial and interfaith relations. She has worked in the areas of multiculturalism and antiracism at the school board, university and provincial levels and has lectured and written on a variety of related topics, with a special emphasis on interreligious marriage, drawing on her experience as a Roman Catholic, who has been married to a Muslim for close to 50 years.