Daisy Khan

Daisy Khan is an award-winning speaker and founder of the Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality (WISE), the largest global network of Muslim women committed to peacebuilding, gender equality, and human dignity. For two decades she’s been combating anti-Muslim bias and is renowned as a thought leader on Muslim women’s rights. On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, Khan was featured in Time magazine along with forty prominent people defining “what it means to meet adversity, and then overcome it.” As a prolific speaker, Khan lectures at businesses, schools, and think tanks including The Council on Foreign Relations, Aspen Institute, and Bloomberg. She’s a media commentator on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, PBS, and the BBC.