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Duriba Khan

This interview is with Duriba Khan, a Pakistani-Indian Muslim and recent graduate from the University of Texas at Austin. Duriba speaks about spending most of her youth going to Islamic school and the culture shock that came with the transition to…

Tags: Austin Peace Academy, Culture, Desis, Discrimination, Feminism, Hijab, Immigrant guilt, Indian-Americans, Law school, Muslim Students Association, Muslim women's experiences, Pakistani Student Association, Pakistani-Americans, Public Policy, The University of Texas at Austin, TX - Austin

Mehraz Rahman

This interview is with Mehraz Rahman, an outgoing senior at The University of Texas at Austin, serving as Vice President of the student body in her final year. Mehraz discusses navigating her identity as part of a small Bangladeshi community in…

Tags: Bangladesh, Bangladeshi-Americans, Desis, Immigration, Islamic schools, Muslim women's experiences, Nueces mosque, Prayer, Student governments, The University of Texas at Austin, TX - Austin

Seja Haque

This interview is with Seja Haque, a high school senior in Corpus Christi, Texas who speaks about struggling between her Muslim and feminist identities as well as being involved at her local mosque where she was eventually asked to teach. Seja…

Tags: Culture, Destination Imagination, Eid al-Fitr, Feminism, First-generation Americans, Immigrant parents, Immigration, Muslim women's experiences, Pakistan, Ramadan, Ray High School, Sunni Islam, The University of Texas at Austin, TX - Austin, TX - Corpus Christi, Urdu

Husaina Yusuf

This interview is with Husaina Yusuf, a young Muslim woman who was born in California and raised in Texas. In this interview, she discusses her upbringing in Houston, the cultural dynamics of her religious sect, and her life experiences. Yusuf was…

Tags: California, Community, Dawoodi Bohra, Desis, Feminism, First-generation Americans, Gender, Immigrant parents, Islam, Marriage, Modern love, Muslims, Pakistan, Pakistani-Americans, The University of Texas at Austin, TX - Austin

Itzel Garcia

This interview is with Itzel Garcia, an indigenous Mexican-American who works in cultural education. Having grown up as part of a migrant family living in The Valley, Itzel speaks about how police brutality, alienation from American culture, and the…

Tags: Academia Cuauhtli, Capitalism, Community, Culture, Culture shock, Decolonization, Education, Educators, Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, Immigration, Indigenous, Mexica danza, Mexican-Americans, Police brutality, The Río Grande Valley, The University of Texas at Austin, US/Mexico border

María Del Carmen Unda

This interview is with María Del Carmen Unda, a doctoral student and community organizer in Austin, Texas. Maria was born and raised in California, later moving to Texas when she enrolled as a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin.…

Tags: Academia Cuauhtli, California, Capitalism, Community, Decolonization, Educators, Indigenous, LatinX, Marginalized communities, Mexican-Americans, Social justice, The University of Texas at Austin, TX - Austin

Winnie Kibe

This interview is with Winnie Kibe, who is originally from Kenya, but now lives in North Texas with her family and will soon move to Boston for law school. Winnie speaks about her experience with racism in a small town in Iowa and how she was not…

Tags: Boston College, Christians, COVID-19, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Kenya, Law school, Louisiana, Multicultural Engagement Center, Political science, Racism, Students for Equity and Diversity, Texas freeze, The University of Texas at Austin, TX - Austin, TX - Denton

Miguel Robles

This interview is with Miguel Robles who grew up in California and moved to Houston, Texas at a young age. Miguel attended the University of Texas at Austin, studying communications and interned at the Institute for Diversity of Civic Life. After…

Tags: California, Community, Diversity and inclusion, Education, Educators, Indonesia, LatinX, Mexico, Moving, The University of Texas at Austin, Travel, TX - Austin

Nabil Yazdani

The interview is with Nabil Yazdani, a member of the Austin Baháʼí community’s Spiritual Assembly. Nabil talks about growing up in Suriname and his experience of moving to the United States for college, then settling in Austin. He discusses how…

Tags: Activism, Baháʼí Faith, Baháʼu'lláh, Community, COVID-19, Culture shock, Diversity and inclusion, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, Immigrants, Interfaith, Spiritual Assembly, Suriname, The University of Texas at Austin, TX - Austin, Wealth

Faegheh Shirazi

This interview is with Faegheh Shirazi, a professor in the Middle Eastern Studies Department at UT Austin. Faegheh talks about her family life and education in Iran before the Iranian Revolution, including her early exposure to education and religion…

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