Widad Khokhar

Widad Khokar

Widad Khokhar is an MA in Islamic Studies candidate at Columbia University. She recently graduated from Dickinson College where she double-majored in Philosophy and Political Science. While in undergrad Khokhar spent a summer working for WHO in Lahore, Pakistan where she worked with the local community to encourage children’s immunizations. She also worked to stop the spread of misinformation encouraging vaccine hesitancy by various religious groups. After Khokhar’s return to the United States she was a judicial intern in Pennsylvania where she discovered her interest in the intersectionality of American and Islamic law.