Born and brought up in Karachi, I am an International Relations major from Bay Area, California. I spent most of my highschool years and college years in student activism, spending time with victims of rape, orphans, the mentally challenged, peace activism, and the victims of racism and/or prejudices.

Since my undergraduate in 2006, I have worked in Pakistan’s non-profit sector mainly in the fields of communications, internet marketing, general marketing and fund-raising. Since 2009, in London, I have also been working part-time with an international women’s organization dealing with campaign development and social media marketing. Throughout the last three years, I have also been keenly involved in citizen journalism and maintaining several blogs.

Currently, I am a Masters student at SOAS in Global Media and Post-national Communication and am extremely interested in media and politics, the image of “Pakistanis,” “Muslims”  and in their portrayal as the “other” in society. I am concerned at how this treatment of the South is resulting in increasing the divide between peoples, hence further fragmenting the society, and whether social media can change this scenario.

I am an optimist, almost to the level of being an idealist, and I feel public is the biggest superpower that can break the backs of other superpowers and it is up to us to speak up and stand for our rights and for justice. In short, Go Project Carousel!!

Links of the organizations/companies I work with:

The Citizens Foundation – http://www.thecitizensfoundation.org

thedreamfly – http://www.thedreamfly.org

Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom – http://www.ukwilpf.org.uk

Nature’s Basin – http://www.naturesbasin.com

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