Hasina Banu Ebrahim holds a PHD on Constructions of Early Childhood Education for and by Children. She is an NRF rated Professor in the Department of Early Childhood Education at the University of South Africa. She is also the UNESCO Co-chair in Early Education, Care and Development. Professor Ebrahim won the 2017 UNISA Women in Research Award and she was the first runner up in the South African Women in Science Award in 2018. Her research coheres around the theme Early Childhood at the Margins with special reference to policy, practice and workforce development. She has numerous publications in national and international journals. She is the sector editor for the South African Journal of Childhood Education and serves on editorial boards of a number of international journals. She is the Chair of Mentorship in the College of Education at UNISA. She has secured grants and mentored majority women researchers nationally and on the continent. Outputs of her mentees, appear in three co-edited volumes related to the early years.