Throughout my career I have viewed public scholarship as integral to my role as a scholar. While in my master’s program at Harvard Divinity School I worked part time at the Pluralism Project, researching religious diversity in the United States, and documenting interfaith initiatives and responses to bias-motivated hate in the Boston area.

While in my PhD program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill I sought out diverse audiences and gave several lectures related to Islam and the history of Muslims in the United States. In the summer of 2021, I was awarded the Humanities Professional Pathways Fellowship through UNC’s Humanities for the Public Good institute. I created three curriculum units related to Muslim American history for North Carolina high school teachers and presented these units in a webinar. In the fall of 2021, I contributed an article entitled "Omar ibn Said: Holding on to Who You Are" in the Resilience issue of the Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine, a semi-annual publication by the North Carolina Museum of History distributed in middle school and high school classrooms across the state.

In 2023, I led a three-hour workshop for K-12 educators hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s Global Studies Center, where I used the poetry anthology Halal if You Hear Me as a lens to discuss pertinent issues affecting contemporary Muslim American communities, including external Islamophobic pressures, such as gendered tropes prevalent in media, and internal dynamics of racism, especially at the level of Muslim American institutions.

I have published several op-eds, inspired in part by my research:

“Op-Ed: The GOP Is Mischaracterizing Critical Race Theory to Suppressive Ends” in Indy Week

“Bernie Sanders represents an opportunity for Jewish-Muslim unity” in Forward

“What Malcolm X Taught Me About Muslim America” in Religion & Politics