Zahra H. Khan, M.S. is an editor and consultant, and a lecturer in the Graduate Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University where she teaches courses about health humanities and advocacy from an anti-oppression framework.

Since 2015, Zahra has taught with community-based education programs supporting adult learners and incarcerated youth in the NY/NJ area. Her writing, research, and community engagement emerges at the intersection of abolition, healing justice and liberation pedagogy, and is largely informed by grassroots, BIPOC organizing work.

Zahra’s writing has appeared in The Lancet, Literature and Medicine, Journal of Medical Ethics, and AMA Journal of Ethics, among other venues.

She has delivered talks at Rutgers University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The University of California--San Francisco, New York University, The University of Oslo, The University of Leeds, and Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris.

Zahra is based in New York and is available to travel for speaking engagements.

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