He
frequently appears on television and podcasts for his brilliant,
incisive, and witty political commentary. (That’s what his mom says
anyway). Born in the Bay Area, California to Pakistani immigrant
parents, Ali went to school wearing Husky pants and knowing only
three words of English. He graduated from UC Berkeley with an
English major and became a licensed attorney. He knows what it
feels like to be the token minority in the classroom and the
darkest person in a boardroom. Like Spiderman, he’s often had the
power and responsibility of being the cultural ambassador of an
entire group of people, those who are often marginalized, silenced,
or reduced to stereotypes.
His
essays, interviews, and reporting have appeared in The New York
Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and New
York Review of Books. Ali has spoken at many organizations, from
Google to Walmart-Jet to the Princeton University to the United
Nations to the Chandni Indian-Pakistani Restaurant in Newark,
California, and his living room in front of his two
kids.
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