Our final episode of our Changemakers season is with Sarah Ahmed — a psychotherapist and CEO of Leena, a national mental health practice that addresses the unique needs of communities of color across Canada. She can be found sharing her expertise online @thepoctherapist through her popular accounts on Tiktok and Instagram.

Today, we’ll be talking to Sarah about why having access to therapists of color is so important, how her own background informs her approach and supports her clients, and the importance of community for healing trauma.

Joining me in the co-host seat is my childhood friend Samia Zitawi, who is Palestinian American.

This season we’re featuring Muslim Changemakers—people whose work has had an extraordinary impact in our community and beyond. And I’m so excited to share our conversation with outdoors enthusiast Ambreen Tariq. Her mission is to encourage Muslims and people of color to experience the natural world. She’s the creator of the wildly popular instagram account Brown People Camping and author of the children’s book Fatima’s Great Outdoors.

My co-host is Dr. Ali Jaffry—a Raleigh-based optometrist and someone who also happens to love travel and camping.

This season on Me & My Muslim Friends, we’re featuring conversations with Changemakers. And on this episode, we’re sitting down with Kashif Shaikh, philanthropist and co-founder of the Pillars Fund. We’ll talk about the characterizations of Muslims in TV + film after 9/11 and how Pillars is backing Muslim filmmakers and writers in an effort to change the narrative.