Aisya Zaharin

Aisya A Zaharin is a PhD researcher, award-winning trans rights advocate, and member of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Trans and Gender Diverse Expert Advisory Committee. Her work focuses on intersectionality and decoloniality, bridging rigorous academic research with grassroots advocacy to highlight marginalised voices in the quest for transformative justice and equity.

She resonates with Noam Chomsky’s 'The Responsibility of Intellectuals' to illuminate and critique political agendas that may shape and sway public opinion. Growing up in a post-colonial nation, she spent her formative years alongside her late mother, a historian, who first introduced her to the haunting history of the Sabra and Shatila massacre.