Hari Kondobalu is our guest today. He is a comedian, writer, podcaster, & filmmaker who is best known for his outspoken 2017 documentary which calls out "The Simpsons" for its controversial portrayal of Indians in its character Apu.  This episode is brought to you by Stamps.com Producer & Host: Saadia Khan Content Editor: Kylee Roberts Content write: Yudi Liu  Editor: Tom Whelan Follow us on Twitter @immigrantly_pod and IG @immigrantlypod.com

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Today, on Immigrantly, we speak with Dharon E. Jones. He is a highly talented musical theatre performer from Brooklyn who played Riff in West Side Story. Jones is also a multifaceted artist, performer, and content creator. His resume includes walking NY Fashion Week, performing beautiful choreography in music videos, and appearing in “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.” While his resume is quite impressive, we mainly discussed the world of theatre and the importance of storytelling on stage. This episode is sponsored by PODGO. Producer & Host: Saadia Khan Associate Producer & Content Editor: Kylee Roberts Content writer: Sarah Doh Editor: Bronte Cook

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Our guest today is Anna Qu. She writes to make sense of cultural diasporas and the immigrant experience, including her own. Anna grew up in New York, earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College, & currently resides in Brooklyn. Her work, which has appeared in publications like Poets & Writers and Jezebel, recasts the narratives ascribed to immigrants with honesty and grit. made its debut this August month.  This episode is sponsored by PODGO. Producer & Host: Saadia Khan Associate Producer & Content Editor: Kylee Roberts Content writer: Yudi Liu Editor: Tom Whelan 

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In Season 12 of Immigrantly, we explore the narratives that haven’t been widely covered across media. Why are we still coming up short in telling fully inclusive stories? Is it time to pivot away from mighty media giants and start making our own stories? What does representation look like in an increasingly digital age?  These are some of the questions we hope to tackle in Season 12. We have an exciting lineup of guests, including Broadway stars, authors, and movie directors, to help us find the answers. But before we dive into this new theme, we thought we should look back at how we have explored media representation on Immigrantly in the past. This episode is sponsored by Misen. Be sure to click on the link "https://bit.ly/3mWH8UT" to get your Misen knife! Producer & Host: Saadia Khan Content Editor: Kylee Roberts Content writer/Editor: Sarah Doh, Yudi Liu & Aleeza Kazmi Editor: Bronte Cook

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Today's guest is Professor Josef Sorett. He is an expert in Religious and African American studies at Columbia University. We talked about the boundaries between secular and sacred, how religion has influenced Black culture from hip hop music to social movements, and why returning to the junctions of religion and culture can be a source of reconciliation and investment in what is common. This episode is sponsored by Db. Click on the link below to get 10%off your purchase. https://bit.ly/37cP8YP   Producer & Host: Saadia Khan Associate Producer: Kylee Roberts Content writer: Yudi Liu Editor: Kylee Roberts

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Marla Louissaint, whose performance credentials include “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” and “Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr, Rosewater” sits down with host and producer Saadia, along with Marla's longtime friend & Immigrantly associate producer, Kylee, to reflect on the road to becoming an ex-Jehovah’s Witness and the Founder/President of an abolitionist nonprofit called "Claim Our Space Now." Db sponsors this episode. Click on the link below to get 10%off your purchase. https://bit.ly/37cP8YP Producer & Host: Saadia Khan Associate Producer: Kylee Roberts Content writer: Sarah Doh Editor: Breanna Steggell

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This week on Immigrantly, we explore the relationship between the environment and religion through a physical vessel that is the Church of Holy Communion on West 20th & 6th Ave New York. The episode reviews the Churches many past lives, including a fitness center and an elite nightclub. Through this historical-social lens, Immigrantly is asking the questions we all have considered: what is a religion to us, and how has it shifted over the years in both a spatial and spiritual sense?  This episode is sponsored by Db. Click on the link below to get 10%off your purchase. https://bit.ly/37cP8YP   Producer & Host: Saadia Khan Associate Producer: Kylee Roberts Content writer: Yudi Liu Editor: Tom Whelan 

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Today's guest Nouri Sardar is a Muslim poet, filmmaker, & co-host of the 786 Boulevard podcast. However, he stands as a change agent at the intersection of religion and social justice at a more fundamental level.  This episode is sponsored by Citizenpath. Go to citizenpath.com and use coupon code "Immigrantly" to get 15% off. This episode is sponsored by Db. Click on the link below to get 10%off your purchase. https://bit.ly/37cP8YP Producer & Host: Saadia Khan Associate Producer: Kylee Roberts Content writer: Yudi Liu Editor: Tom Whelan 

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Our today's guest is Faisal Devji. Faisal is a historian who specializes in studies of Islam, globalization, violence, and ethics. He is a professor at St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. His multidisciplinary work grounds empirical historical issues in philosophical questions. Some of his published work includes "Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity," which explores the ethical content of jihad, and "The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptations of Violence," which presents Gandhi as a hard-hitting political thinker rather than an idealistic pacifist. This episode is sponsored by Indiana University's (IU) "Muslim Voices Project" & IU Inner Asia and Uralic National Resource Center (IAUNRC)   Producer & Host: Saadia Khan  Associate Producer: Kylee Roberts Content writer: Sarah Doh Editor: Tom Whelan 

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Mira Sethi is an actor and a writer. Sethi has worked as a books editor at The Wall Street Journal. She has written op-eds for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian. She regularly appears in mainstream Pakistani drama series on television. Her debut book, ," is a collection of short stories in Pakistan. This episode is sponsored by Citizenpath. Go to citizenpath.com and use coupon code "Immigrantly" to get 15% off. This episode is sponsored by HelloFresh. To get an $80 discount on your First Box, click on the link below and use the code in the show notes. Link: https://hellofresh-ca.o5kg.net/c/2544961/791027/7893 Code: HFAFF80 Producer & Host: Saadia Khan Associate Producer: Kylee Roberts Content writer: Yudi Liu Editor: Tom Whelan 

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