Name: Hoda Katebi

Recipient Year: 2020

Major: Law

Description: Hoda is a Chicago-based Iranian-American writer, abolitionist organizer, and creative educator. Her political fashion work has been hailed from the BBC to the New York Times to the pages of VOGUE. Hoda is the host of #BecauseWeveRead, a radical digital book club; founding member of Blue Tin Production, an apparel manufacturing workers co-operative run by working-class women of color; a national lead with Believers Bail Out, a bail fund using Zakat to bail Muslims from pretrial & immigration incarceration; and organizer with the No War Campaign. She is the author of the book Tehran Streetstyle, contributor to the book I Refuse to Condemn: Resisting Racism in Times of National Security (Manchester Press 2020). She frequently gives talks and trainings on stages around the world.  In 2016 she graduated from the University of Chicago where her research explored the intersections of fashion, gender, and the state in Iran. Hoda runs on saffron ice cream & colonizer tears.

School Name: UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Afzal Family Foundation