Ayesha Mohammed is a rising junior at Northwestern University majoring in Anthropology and American Studies and a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow from Gurnee, Illinois. Her research interests include the impacts of foreign policy on diasporic American communities and discourses on gender and sexuality in Muslim American communities. She is also interested in the unique ways incarceration affects those racialized as Muslim. This summer, she will be researching perceptions held by Muslims and ex-Muslims with diverse sexual and gender identities regarding inclusion and exclusion from Chicago community spaces. Ayesha is especially fond of teaching and after obtaining a PhD, she hopes to contribute to creating academic environments that inspire and defend liberatory thinking. On campus, she is involved in NU Community for Human Rights, The Jasmine Collective, and Hobart House. In her free time, Ayesha likes hanging out with her friends, playing Word Hunt, and drinking blue raspberry slushies.
Ayesha Mohammed is a rising junior at Northwestern University majoring in Anthropology and American Studies and a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow from Gurnee, Illinois. Her research interests include the impacts of foreign policy on diasporic American communities and discourses on gender and sexuality in Muslim American communities. She is also interested in the unique ways incarceration affects those racialized as Muslim. This summer, she will be researching perceptions held by Muslims and ex-Muslims with diverse sexual and gender identities regarding inclusion and exclusion from Chicago community spaces. Ayesha is especially fond of teaching and after obtaining a PhD, she hopes to contribute to creating academic environments that inspire and defend liberatory thinking. On campus, she is involved in NU Community for Human Rights, The Jasmine Collective, and Hobart House. In her free time, Ayesha likes hanging out with her friends, playing Word Hunt, and drinking blue raspberry slushies.