Today our guest is 25 year old convert to Islam Kaya Gravitter. Kaya is a writer and is currently working on publishing her first novel. Kaya also writes poetry and has written articles published on The Huffington Post, Yahoo! News, and Muslimgirl.com. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and International Studies and is an activist for change, in hopes of a better world.

 

Kaya touches on her early experiences when converting from Christianity to Islam and talks about some of the struggles that converts and other Muslim minorities are facing within the Muslim community and gives us her ideas on how such things can be improved.

 

• Social media impact on networking and success.
• Difficulties converts have going through Ramadan and fasting alone and outside community and family.
• How the Muslim community and Masjid can improve on helping new converts adjust and fit in with special convert programs.
• Teachings of Islam that made changes to Kaya’s ways and personality and life.
• Kaya’s plans and goals for her writing.

Show notes and transciption link https://bit.ly/2TqlWck

Connect with Kaya:

Blog: www.kayagravitter.com

Instagram: @kaya.gravitter www.instagram.com/kaya.gravitter/?hl=en

Twitter: @BoGravitter twitter.com/GravitterBo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Facebook: @KayaGravitterWriter www.facebook.com/KayaGravitterWriter/

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