Yasaman Moussavi is a visual artist and educator. She is a PhD student in Art education in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia. In her art practice research, she explores the socio-cultural in-betweenness as a capacity and disposition to participate in the process of meaning making and learning across cultures and languages. In her art-based research project, Yasaman explores the ways in which art making intervene the established social relations in order to recover the embodied act of mapping and place making as a constituent to build social bonding. Yasaman holds an MFA with two emphases on Painting and Printmaking from Texas Tech University. She also holds a MA in Art Studies from Tehran University, Iran, and a BFA in Painting from Alzahra University Tehran, Iran. Her works have been displayed and published in many national and international solo and group exhibitions.