Laiba Waqas is a South Asian Community Organizer, currently working to make sure everyone has access to the ballot, is registered to vote and that their vote is counted. Laiba graduated from New York University in 2019 majoring in politics with a minor in Mandarin, and first worked as an Assistant Canvass Director raising $130,000 with her team for Planned Parenthood. Later, she worked as a Campus Organizer with NextGen Arizona registering young people and students to vote and empowering them to get civically engaged. She also writes for an online platform called Women’s Republic which exists to shed light on issues affecting those that identify as women, such as cultural expectations and stereotypes but also celebration of womanhood. In her free time, Laiba loves to cook dumplings and watch Netflix shows.

Feat: Noises from my dog