Sara Faridi is a professor of Mathematics at Dalhousie University. Her research interests are in Commutative Algebra and its relations with Combinatorics. She received her PhD degree in 2000 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Professor Faridi has held postdoctoral and faculty positions at University of Ottawa, University of Quebec at Montreal and George Washington University. She has also been a visiting scholar at Technische Universitaet Darmstadt and MSRI.