Asad Dandia

Asad Dandia is the Outreach and Partnerships Manager at ISPU, where he is responsible for developing programmatic partnerships, ensuring that ISPU research reaches key audiences, developing and maintaining relationships with ISPU scholars, and overseeing impact education projects. Before joining the ISPU, Asad was the Community Program Coordinator at the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY), where he co-published a groundbreaking report on Islamophobia in New York City after surveying hundreds of Muslim New Yorkers. He has worked for the American Muslim community for his entire adult life, and his writing has been published in the Washington Post, Al-Jazeera English, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others.

MA, Islamic Studies, Columbia University

BS, Social Work, New York University