Zeynya is the Centre for Family Equity's community engagement and research coordinator. Zeynya is a researcher and policy professional with an interest and experience in human rights, sustainability, and public policy issues. In her past roles, working with non-profits, think tanks, and governments, she has coordinated and contributed to a diversity of research and policy projects with experience working directly with at-risk communities impacted by poverty and marginalization.

Zeynya coordinates the CFE's research partnered with academic institutions and plans, coordinates and carries out community engagement at the CFE both internally for the organization and for external engagement contracts with allies and partners. She trains and supports all peer researchers and peer facilitators in the CFE's participatory action research capacity-building mandate and program, collects and analyzes data, develops policy and program recommendations based on research and engagement data, writes research reports, and supports all community-engaged knowledge mobilization with peer researchers.