Karla Jubaily is a Lebanese-Filipina writer and media specialist, born and raised on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice and a Master of Journalism from the University of British Columbia. Karla’s work spans long-form journalism, audio storytelling, documentary research, and community-led media projects, with a focus on culture, heritage, grief, migration, food, community and care.

She is the creator and host of Cooking Up Culture, a podcast that explores how food and memory shape identity, preserve tradition, and sustain diasporic communities. Through her reporting, Karla centres stories from Filipino, Lebanese, and equity-deserving communities in Canada, examining displacement, labour, housing, and the everyday ways people build belonging.

Karla is a recipient of the Canadian Arab Institute’s 2023 “30 Under 30” award and was a 2023–24 Global Reporting Program Fellow, contributing research, scripting, and fact-checking to an investigative documentary on housing, displacement, and refugees. Her writing and media work have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Georgia Straight, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Beirut Today, and other publications.