Dr. Daisy Khan is an award-winning author, public speaker, and media commentator. She founded the Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality (WISE), a global network promoting peacebuilding, gender equality, and human dignity. With over two decades of grassroots work against anti-Muslim bias, she is a recognized thought leader on Muslim women’s rights and Islam in America.
When I emigrated to America, I attended high School in a Jewish Long Island suburb and focused on my career as an architectural designer in New York City. I married and found myself, as an imam’s wife, at the center of a community in which women turned to me for advice. After working for 25 years, I quit my corporate career after 9-11 to dedicate my life to community service. I devised innovative ways to strengthen bonds between faith communities, founded initiatives to build bridges through the arts, created a global youth leadership platform [MLT] and founded the largest network of Muslim women [WISE]. I created thought-provoking conversations and published researched and evidence-based publications [WISE Up] to develop narratives of peace in the face of rising hate and extremism.
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