Researcher
I study how mass violence emerges — and how prevention can intervene before it does. My work pressure-tests original research at academic conferences and symposia, turning early-warning theory into something usable.
Explore my research →Hi, I’m Maryam.
A first-gen human rights scholar, storyteller & public-interest communicator. I ask difficult questions about violence, injustice, and how we might prevent them — then make sure the answers reach people who aren’t in the room.
what I do —
A few hats, one mission
Job titles change, but the throughline holds: take something true and important, and make sure it reaches the person who needs it.
Communicator & strategist
I turn dense research into op-eds, briefings & campaigns that actually move. I grew media citations 60% at Freedom House and raised $30K in six months at ICRD — and I love the puzzle of making hard ideas land.
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Storyteller
On Maryam’s Mosaic, I turn abstract systems — violence, memory, justice — into human stories. I write to make the heavy things legible, and to keep marginalized voices at the center, where they belong.
Read Maryam’s Mosaic ↗off the clock —
What I’m into right now
A snapshot of the inputs — updated now & then.
Reading
All About Love
bell hooks — on love as practice
Listening
Throughline
NPR — history meets the present, & Qawwali on repeat
Watching
Documentaries
on memory, place & the people history skips
On my mind
Who gets to tell the story?
the question under everything I make
some fun facts —
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I once drafted a full course syllabus for teaching transitional justice through The Hunger Games — now I just need a dean brave enough to approve it.
My very first job was scooping at my dad’s Baskin-Robbins at 15. I can still build a mean banana split.
I’ve made it to 6 countries so far — and I’m nowhere near done.
I think in three languages — English, Urdu & Spanish — and lose my train of thought in all of them.
say hi —
Let’s make something — or just chat.
Research, a collaboration, a campaign, or a thought you can’t shake and want to say out loud — my inbox is open, and I’d genuinely love to hear from you.
maryamsmosaic@gmail.com