Know the popular podcast #GoodMuslimBadMuslim? It is one of the trendiest podcasts of the moment! I am excited and honored to announce my next guest is Tanzila ‘Taz’ Ahmed, co-host of #GoodMuslimBadMuslim! I am thrilled and excited for my listeners to hear Taz speak about issues important to her that are deeply rooted issues of the immigrant lives! 
Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed is an activist, storyteller, and politico based in Los Angeles. An electoral organizer by trade, she’s mobilized thousands of Asian American & Pacific Islanders to the polls in over seventeen different languages in the past fifteen years at various non-profit organizations, starting with founding South Asian American Voting Youth in 2004. She currently is a Campaign Strategist at the Asian American new media organizing group 18MillionRising.
In 2016, Taz was honored as a White House Champion of Change for Asian American and Pacific Islander Art and Storytelling. She is cohost of The #GoodMuslimBadMuslim Podcast that has been featured in Oprah Magazine, Wired, and Buzzfeed as well as live shows recorded at South by Southwest and the White House. An avid essayist, she had a monthly column called Radical Love, was a blogger for Sepia Mutiny, has written for Truthout, The Aerogram, The Nation, Left Turn Magazine, and more. She is published in forthcoming anthology Good Girls Marry Doctors (2016) and poetry collection Coiled Serpent (2016) and was published in the anthology Love, Inshallah (2012). Her third poetry chapbook Emdash and Ellipses was published in early 2016. Taz curates Desi music at Mishthi Music where she co-produced Beats for Bangladesh and she annually makes #MuslimVDay Cards. Her artwork was featured in the shows Sharia Revoiced (2015), in Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s “H-1B” (2015), and Rebel Legacy: Activist Art from South Asian California (2014).
Taz’s parents are from Bangladesh, just like mine and I am so honored to have the opportunity to highlight a notable Bengali on my show!
Taz will be on my radio talk show “Immigration with Tahmina Watson” at 10 am PST on Tuesday August 9th on Desi 1250 AM. You can tune into your radio at 1250 AM or listen online at www.desi1250am.com. #GoodMuslimBadMuslim issues as well as other issues close to Taz’s heart are our desi issues too! This show will be an unmissable one particularly if you are a fan of Taz and her work! If you have questions, you are welcome to email me in advance at [email protected] or call into the show at 844-301-1250.
Thanks in advance to Taz for taking time out of her incredibly busy schedule to join me on the “Immigration with Tahmina” show!