received a full scholarship to attend Dickinson College, a prestigious liberal arts school located in southeast Pennsylvania, at just 17 years old.
It didn’t take long for Burhan to flourish academically, as they focused on sustainability and other environment-related disciplines.
Today, Burhan works as a program manager for a non-profit in Boston, and has delivered speeches at numerous international conferences, including the Green Allies Conference and United Nations “We the People” Film Festival.
For their efforts, Burhan was named one of the “50 coolest South Asians of 2022.”‘Joyland’ has been praised as a daring and boundary-breaking work of art, particularly for the majority Muslim country from which it hails.But sustainability isn’t the only advocacy work that’s important to them.