Huda Alawa is a Muslim American activist-through-academia interested in minority issues and human rights, and has done much fieldwork within these fields. She is a board member of Coming of Faith, LLC, a nonprofit working to bring the stories of Muslim American women to light, and is also a contributor to the Pluralism Project, which looks at religious pluralism in the United States. On the rare occasions she is not reading or writing, Huda can be found photographing the city, binge watching Orange is the New Black, or running after her cat in hopes of the cat's attention.