Sofia Ali-Khan

Sofia performed on stage for Seriously Entertaining at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater on October 4, 2022. Watch it below.

Sofia Ali-Khan is a writer and an accomplished public-interest attorney. She has worked for Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, Prairie State Legal Services in Illinois, and the American Bar Association. She became a national leader on the right to language access and also practiced in the areas of welfare law, Medicaid access, immigration, and community economic development. She was a founding board member and activist with the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). A second-generation Pakistani American born and raised in the United States, Ali-Khan now lives in Ontario, Canada, with her family. Her memoir, A Good Country: My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America, was published in 2022.

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