Vathsala Illesinghe is a policy studies PhD candidate at the Yeates School of Graduate Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada. An experienced violence against women researcher in South Asia with some of the most cited works from Sri Lanka on gender-based violence, she is working on unravelling the complex intersections of gender, violence, and South Asian women’s experiences of migration to Canada. She was a Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Joseph-Armand Bombardier scholar and serves on the expert panel of the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability (CFOJA) since 2019.