Saira Khan (English '09), currently the director of social media for The New Yorker, will be the recipient of an outstanding young UMBC alumna award on October 4.
Ms. Khan’s journalism - on a range of topics from cleaning up crime scenes to queer artists, and personal essays about literature, street harassment, and dating - has appeared in various publications, most impressively, The Atlantic and The New York Times.
Check out her recent book recommendation at The New Yorker:
