Fariha Nawar

Fariha Nawar (she/her) is a rising senior majoring in Political Science and English, and minoring in Comparative Literature. She grew up in Vermont, and now lives in Syracuse, NY. She aspires to be an advocate in the human rights field and is passionate about uplifting marginalized communities. She is interested in comparative politics, political theory, and the literature, politics, and history of the Global South. At Penn, Fariha has been heavily involved in the Asian American community through being founder and former President of Penn Bangla, former Political Chair of the Asian Pacific Student Coalition, and a member of the ASAM UAB. She has conducted human rights research for Perry World House's Borders and Boundaries Project, and is an SNF Paideia Fellow. You can generally find her performing her spoken word poetry with the Excelano Project, exploring every bookstore within a 50-mile radius, or convincing the people around her that tea is infinitely better than coffee.