BIO
Ahmed is the Director of the Mosaic Center for Students of Color. Ahmed joined UVM in 2023. Prior to coming to Vermont, they served as Director of the Center for Social Justice, Clerk of the Faculty, and Plowshares Associate Professor of Politics at Earlham College in Indiana.
Ahmed had the good fortune of being born in the US to two immigrants, one a US citizen, the other a Pakistani one—and the bad fortune of being born in an era when folks really liked bowl cuts. Thankfully, they avoided that fate! Ahmed and fam moved a bunch, he spent much of his childhood as an expat on a predominantly American compound in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, before ultimately ending up at a fancy boarding school where unbeknownst to themselves, they definitely were brown, middle-class (which, relative to many at that school, was, low-income), and also just unsure about what to do.
It took a few, but eventually, Ahmed found their way to the University of Colorado, where they began volunteering at the Women’s Resource Center, encountered the writing of Fanon and Toni and Angelou and Malcolm’s speeches, and started thinking about differences in both the American and global contexts. Folks, it has been a ride! He completed a doctorate (political science) and really enjoyed teaching at Earlham, a small liberal arts college in Indiana. Over the first few years at Earlham, Ahmed discovered a passion for institution-wide work and especially for advocating, supporting, and loving on persons in historically marginalized groups.
Ahmed brings an abiding love for basketball (and has been a Nuggets fan since the 1990s), a love-affair with coffee, two hilarious, amazing, beautiful, weird kiddos, and a healthy appreciation for medium-funny jokes. They hope to learn from folks throughout the community about new skills for surviving and thriving and hope to be a plucky interlocutor and, too, comfort as needed.
Bio
Ahmed is the Director of the Mosaic Center for Students of Color. Ahmed joined UVM in 2023. Prior to coming to Vermont, they served as Director of the Center for Social Justice, Clerk of the Faculty, and Plowshares Associate Professor of Politics at Earlham College in Indiana.
Ahmed had the good fortune of being born in the US to two immigrants, one a US citizen, the other a Pakistani one—and the bad fortune of being born in an era when folks really liked bowl cuts. Thankfully, they avoided that fate! Ahmed and fam moved a bunch, he spent much of his childhood as an expat on a predominantly American compound in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, before ultimately ending up at a fancy boarding school where unbeknownst to themselves, they definitely were brown, middle-class (which, relative to many at that school, was, low-income), and also just unsure about what to do.
It took a few, but eventually, Ahmed found their way to the University of Colorado, where they began volunteering at the Women’s Resource Center, encountered the writing of Fanon and Toni and Angelou and Malcolm’s speeches, and started thinking about differences in both the American and global contexts. Folks, it has been a ride! He completed a doctorate (political science) and really enjoyed teaching at Earlham, a small liberal arts college in Indiana. Over the first few years at Earlham, Ahmed discovered a passion for institution-wide work and especially for advocating, supporting, and loving on persons in historically marginalized groups.
Ahmed brings an abiding love for basketball (and has been a Nuggets fan since the 1990s), a love-affair with coffee, two hilarious, amazing, beautiful, weird kiddos, and a healthy appreciation for medium-funny jokes. They hope to learn from folks throughout the community about new skills for surviving and thriving and hope to be a plucky interlocutor and, too, comfort as needed.