Labeeque is a graduate student in the Master of Development Practice program at Balsillie School of International Affairs and the University of Waterloo. He holds a Baccalauréat ès Sciences en Psychologie from l’Université du Québec à Montréal, where he built a foundation in human behaviour, therapeutic approaches, motivations, and social dynamics. His background in Psychology provided him with insights into how motivation and decision-making are not by personal choices only, but by the systems of power and inequality. This allows him to critically analyze how social, cultural, and psychological factors reinforce systems of oppression or create pathways for liberation and social justice.

He has worked as a research assistant at the Language and Multilingualism Lab at McGill University, where he explored language, cognition, and multilingualism. These allowed him to understand the social and cultural factors that shape knowledge and identity. He has also worked as a Bilingual Crisis Interventionist at Kids Help Phone, where he provided crisis support to youth across Canada. He has also volunteered at non-profits like Humanity First, where he experienced working with vulnerable communities. These roles revealed to him both the resilience of these communities and the oppressive systems that leave them in a vulnerable position in the first place.

Through the Master of Development Practice program, he wishes to gain expertise in global sustainable development and transformative change, to contribute to global humanitarian efforts. His goal is to understand how he can use development practice as a tool for the liberation of the masses, especially the marginalized. He aims to challenge through his work systems of oppression, capitalism, and colonial legacies that use development to maintain the status quo of disproportionate wealth distribution and unequal health outcomes. He wishes to radically center human dignity at the heart of development practices.

Through understanding and targeting the unjust systems through an intersectional and humanist lens, he aims to advance human rights, resilience, equity, decolonization, and indigenization. He aspires to integrate the principle of collective liberation as the foundation of true humanitarian and developmental efforts for human freedoms.