Rashmee is an anti-racist educator working in the Kindergarten to Grade 12 education sector in Ontario. She is an educational policy researcher and public scholar engaged in community-partnered multilingual research.  Rashmee completed her Bachelor of Science from the University of Bombay in 1987. She completed her B,Ed in Mathematics, Science and Technology from York University in 2004 and her M.Ed in Language, Culture and Teaching from the same institution in 2015. Rashmee earned her Ph.D in Educational Leadership and Policy from the University of Toronto in 2021.

Rashmee has taught for over 20 years in Ontario in a variety of roles from science teacher to Special Education Resource Teacher and Autism Community Class Teacher. For her MEd, Rashmee examined the work done by “South Asian” mothers for their children’s transition from Grade 8 to 9.  In 2021, she completed her Ph.D in Educational Leadership and Policy where she explored educational policy implementation gaps by examining the intersection between Mothering Work and teachers’ labour in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in Ontario.

Rashmee’s research focuses on school-family partnerships. She is dedicated to supporting school teams and educators to eliminate barriers to educational outcomes for all students. She uses her expertise in educational policy implementation to influence social change especially related to K-12 schooling.

Rashmee is fluently multilingual in six languages. She is also a published poet, photographer, and avid gardener.