Browntown Ep 2: Shahana Hanif

Kajal Magazine
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1 min readNov 21, 2016

Community organizer and activist Shahana Hanif advocates for her people in the Bangladeshi neighborhood of Kensington in Brooklyn, New York. She focuses primarily on language access, disability justice and female leadership.

In Browntown’s second episode, Shahana walks us through Kensington and points out the familiar mosques, activism groups, and discusses what it’s like to live with lupus.

Browntown is a video series project from Kajal Media that aims to collect stories from the global South Asian diaspora.

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