Bayan Khatib is a published creative and non-fiction writer and a speaker about human rights and the Syrian refugee crisis. She is the co-founder and director of the Syrian Canadian Foundation and on the advisory committees of a number of nonprofits and community groups.

Bayan graduated from the University of Toronto, Mississauga, with a degree in English and Professional Writing and Communications and also has a Masters in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory from McMaster University.