Q has led many “lives” in professionalized and grassroots movements as a resource mobilizer, healing justice practitioner, and narrative strategist. For the past 15 years, their work has been guided by trusting the inherent wholeness within ourselves and our movements. Q is a Muslim femme who is trying to get us more free in this realm and the next.
Q graduated with a Masters in Social Work in Community Organizing and Management. Their deepest forms of knowledge extend outside of the classroom over South Asian brunch, in somatic grief circles, and near Lake Merritt/Lake Michigan.
Q was born in Pakistan, raised by NYC and Midwest, and is rooted in Ohlone Land in Northern California.