Omar Yaqub DSL ICD.D MBA BSc (@somaryaqub [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/somaryaqub/)), serves the team at IslamicFamily, a social change organization that is disrupting systemic inequity through service, research & beauty. During his time with [IslamicFamily](http://islamicfamily.ca/) the organization has become a multi-award winning Imagine Canada accredited charity. He is a former Historian Co-Laureate for the City of Edmonton & past instructor in the MBA program at the University of Alberta. He has two decades of experience in the for-benefit sector. Omar has been awarded a honorary doctorate from St Stephen’s College, EMCN’s RISE award for Community Leadership, and the University of Alberta’s Co-op Mentorship Award. He is a settler on Treaty 6. Omar’s affordable housing work focuses on beauty & equity. Beauty comes from following data, listening to people and designing homes families can flourish in. Equity is about being just, recognizing systemic inequality, and building fairer solutions while using a classic & fairer way of investing where returns are tied to results. Omar’s affordable housing work includes the APPI (Alberta Professional Planners Institute) Award Winning, CHMC: Halal Housing Lab ([halalhousinglab.ca](http://halalhousinglab.ca)).