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Khudai Tanveer

Khudai Tanveer joined the Johns Hopkins University Development and Alumni Relations (DA) team in June, 2022 as the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Program Manager. Khudai's role focuses on developing strategies to enhance the recruitment, and experience of historically underrepresented and underserved minority populations in pursuit of a diverse workforce and alumni network. With this unique position for DAR, Khudai has dual involvement with both the DAR Talent Management Human Resource, and Central Office of Alumni Relations teams.

Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Khudai spent time at Cook Ross as an IDEA Content & Research Manager, as well as the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance as a National Political Organizer. They are committed to bringing folks together to have the necessary conversations, growth, community, power, and joy in an intentional way to push the mission forward.

When Comcast is not interviewing them on national TV about living on the intersections of Queerness & Islam, you can find them cooking as a form of rebellion. This protest started young and serves as a catalyst for processing big emotions. They demonstrate weekly through their food pop-up, Desi Dish. This 2019 Advocate.com Champion of Pride (reppin' the state of Virginia) enjoys long walks on the beach…if by long walks on the beach, you mean having extensive conversations about how we can all do our part to make the world more inclusive.