Rafia Zakaria is the author of Against White Feminism (W.W. Norton, 2021) and Veil (Bloomsbury, 2017). She’s written for the Guardian, Boston Review, The New Republic, and The New York Times Book Review. She is a regular columnist for Al Jazeera America and Dawn Pakistan and has written for many publications around the world including The Hindu, The Calcutta Stateman, China Daily, The Korea Herald and Le Monde. Rafia is an author, attorney, political philosopher, and human rights activist who has worked on behalf of victims of domestic violence around the world. Zakaria was born and raised in Karachi and now lives in Pakistan and the United States, where she served on the board of directors of Amnesty International USA. She is the first Muslim American woman to serve on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA for two consecutive terms.