Abir Ward holds a PhD in English: Composition and Applied Linguistics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and her dissertation is on the literacy and publishing practices of multilingual science researchers. Her research interests span across three areas: Language, identity, and power relations, and she has published articles on linguistic injustice, language teacher identities, spatial marginalization, networks of knowledge production, and social justice pedagogies. Her 14 years of professional experience include teaching at the Lebanese American University a variety of courses ranging from first-year composition to oral communication and world literature. There, she started the annual creative writing workshops and poetry competition. She later joined the American University of Beirut (AUB) where she taught academic writing, English for international business, and technical writing for Engineers; she also taught executive communication at the Suliman Olayan School of Business EMBA program. Ward also led the editorial work of Pages Apart, a 700-page academic reader used for teaching first-year composition. In 2019, she founded 2Rāth, a social justice initiative engaged in the politics of representation, and that project helped create Wikipedia articles about invisible yet notable Arab women. She helped AUB become the first university outside of north America to join Wikipedia Education, and she organized Lebanon’s first Edit-a-thons that engaged over 100 Wikipedia editors, edited over 200 articles, and created 42 articles that have since garnered over 18 million views. Also, Ward was the co-curator of TEDxAUB and helped organize the annual Celebration of Student Writing that showcased the writing of over 5000 students from various disciplines. Throughout her career at AUB, Ward delivered workshops in literacy and publishing practices as well as in effective communication to faculty and graduate students at the Olayan School of Business, the School of Nursing, and the Clinical Research Institute (CRI). She was the recipient of the CCCC Wikipedia fellowship and the Middle East Partnership Initiative grant from the US Department of State in 2021. She recently began a YouTube series where she interviews prominent authors about their literacy practices to help English language learners gain an understanding of how authors develop successful and sustainable writing habits. In 2022, Ward joined Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences' Writing Program. There, she teaches a course on linguistic injustice.