
A Podcast That Unpacks What It’s Like to Be an Immigrant in America
On her Immigrantly podcast, host Saadia Khan engages in conversations about race, identity, and the “general messiness of being human.”
By Brian Libby
January 13, 2022
3 minute read
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Human-rights activist and Pakistan native Saadia Khan had been living in the United States for more than a decade when the 2016 presidential election prompted her to act against a growing wave of bigotry. “As an immigrant, and as a Muslim woman, I was just so uncomfortable with the rhetoric that was circulating in mainstream media and within political spheres,” Khan, who’s worked with a variety of United Nations organizations, says of the time. She had recently been hired to produce a podcast for a client—and decided to put what she learned from the project to use.
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