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Islamabad
Islamabad
Islamabad, Islamabad, 44000
Pakistan

Amna Baig

Amna Baig is an ASP of Punjab Police. Amna Baig is originally from Hunza, graduated from NUST and right now is fighting stereotypes with her work and humour!

Eva Zu Beck

Pakistan's favorite travel vlogger, digital marketer and Pakistan's social media sweetheart - Eva Zu Beck! Previous to her adventurous life, she led the growth of Culture Trip, a travel media start-up, and worked at the European Parliament in Brussels, travelled like a madwoman and studied French & German at the University of Oxford.

Kashmala Kakakhel

Kashmala Kakakhel has over 12 years of experience, working with developing country governments, primarily Bangladesh, Malawi, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan. Her interest has been in the solution space of climate change, focusing on finance, working on creative, workable solutions to address the global challenge. She also works closely with developing country governments to articulate their positions at international negotiations - negotiations that ultimately led to the global Paris Agreement on climate change. She was part of the team that developed PTI's 100 Days Agenda, and is now working with the Government to track and deliver its agenda.

Madiha Hamid

Madiha Hamid is the founder Chefling Tales- a Pakistani food discovery website promoting Pakistan's food heritage. Food is culture and the custodians of Pakistani cuisine are the women Home Chefs. At the core of Chefling Tales are talented women home chefs from the valley of Hunza to the streets to Sindh; these women are helping document regional recipes, run food tours and sell their home-cooked meals online. Madiha has also lead the Global Shaper (part of World Economic Forum) Islamabad Hub and worked on local community uplifting initiatives. She has been mentioned for her work on Share America, Express Tribune, PTV. She represented Pakistan at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Silicon Valley. She was nominated for 70 Heroes of Pakistan by Jang Group. She has received a Women Can do Award. She also speaks at various events to motivate women of Pakistan to follow their passion.

Mehr Tarar

Lahore-based columnist and writer Mehr Tarar. Author of Do We Not Bleed? and Leaves from Lahore.

Rina Saeed

Rina Saeed Khan is an award-winning environmental journalist based in Islamabad, Pakistan. She began her career in journalism in 1992 when she joined The Friday Times, Pakistan’s first independent English weekly newspaper, where she served as Features Editor till 1998. From 1998 onwards she began working as a consultant in communications with the UNDP in Pakistan and WWF-Pakistan, writing reports, articles and scripts for documentaries Rina completed her BA from Grinnell College, USA in 1991 and in 2000 got her MA degree in Environment and Development from the London School of Oriental and African Studies as a Chevening Scholar. She has received international awards like the Earth Journalism Award in Copenhagen during the UN Summit on climate change in 2009 for the best reporting on climate change from Asia. Rina wrote a popular weekly column on the environment called Earthly Matters for DAWN, Pakistan’s largest circulation English-language national daily for over 10 years. She currently writes blogs for DAWN and Express Tribune and articles for Reuters Alertnet and the Third Pole Network in addition to her consultancies for WWF-Pakistan, LEAD-Pakistan and the Heinrich Boll Foundation. She recently attended COP21 in Paris and COP22 in Marrakesh and COP23 in Bonn as a journalist and filed reports for DAWN and Express Tribune. She has also co-authored a book on the environment in Pakistan, recently published by Oxford University Press entitled: “Water in the Wilderness: Life in the coast, desert and mountains of Pakistan”. Her second book, “From Mountains to Mangroves” was also published by OUP in 2017.

Saiyna Bashir

Saiyna Bashir is a photojournalist from Pakistan, currently based in Islamabad. She has been accepted to the Eddie Adams Workshop, the New York Times Portfolio Review and the New York Times Student Journalism Institute. Saiyna is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Reuters, Al Jazeera America, Associated Press, Huffington Post, CNN, Unicef, Refinery 29, Chicago Sun-Times, and NPR among others.

Sehar Tariq

Sehar Tariq is a food enthusiast, a Diet Coke addict and older sister to a very spoilt fluffy white dog named Sophia Loren The Second. Sehar grew up in Islamabad and has spent the last ten years working in Pakistan on issues of human rights, peacebuilding, rule of law and creating a society that is tolerant and free of violent extremism. Having spent the last few years working on very serious issues - Sehar has recognized the importance of taking out time to be non-serious and laugh. Sehar recently joined an all women’s stand up comedy group called Auratnaak. Sehar believes in the power of laughter and is now finding ways to make people laugh while still thinking about some of the most serious issues that confront our country today.

Zoha Zuberi

Zoha Zuberi is a self taught singer/songwriter, musician, artist and an architect by profession based in Islamabad. She has worked her way from being a cover artist to finding herself as an indie musician and an expressionist painter. She's been playing regular gigs in Islamabad and is currently working on her debut album titled February. She has also collaborated with some of the coolest musicians in the scene with tracks such as Janay Kyun featuring Jasim Haider and the Pindi Boys. She loves to experiment with different genres and she practices what she states as a raw form of music which is to an expression however way an artist expresses themselves.