Imani Bashir is a world-traveling storyteller, mother, and advocate who's lived in five countries across four continents, including Egypt, Poland, and Malaysia.

Imani’s work focuses on culturally immersive social media content highlighting various atrocities and initiatives to support marginalized communities worldwide.

She asks: how do we travel in a way that's generative, not destructive?

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What you’ll hear:

  • How living abroad shaped Imani’s global citizenship
  • Travel as a way to gain empathy for immigrants
  • Travel media industry’s handling of Gaza
  • The history of Black Islam in America
  • Did anything change since the murder of George Floyd?
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“The destination is not about the destination. The destination is about people. And if we forget about the people in the process of talking about these destinations, what are we even doing?” – Imani Bashir
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