Misha Choudhry, Ph.D. is a facilitator, educator, scholar, and poet. She is a specialist on the impact of post-9/11 anti-Muslim racism and the suppression of anti-imperialist dissent in the United States, as well as queer and feminist Muslim artistic and literary lineages. She received her Ph.D. in English at UC Riverside, where she wrote her dissertation, “‘Let me LOOK at you:’ Post-9/11 Representational Imperative & Muslim* Refusal,” which examines the emergence of a coherent Muslim American identity in post-9/11 era literature and media as a colonial formation. 

Misha has 7 years of teaching experience, including universities, community college, and high school. She is passionate about providing young people with the analytical and creative tools they need to be active participants in queer and feminist global majority movements. Misha is also a host and producer on KPFK's weekly show, Radio Intifada. In addition to editing her dissertation into a book manuscript, she is currently working on a book-length poetry collection called Waterlog. Born in Lahore, Pakistan and raised in New Jersey, Misha is passionate about cultivating queer Muslim spaces and building transnational networks of support.