b. 1998 Johannesburg, South Africa
Based in New Haven, USA

Zahra Abba Omar is a researcher and writer. She is presently a PhD student in Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at Yale University. At Yale, she co-convenes the WGSS Colloquium and Working Group and the reading group Gender Work, which is supported by the Whitney Humanities Center. She received her BA Honours in Sociology, with distinction, at the University of Cape Town in 2020, where she was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow.

In January 2022, she joined ALT Advisory as its inaugural Tech Rights Fellow, assisting with research and analysis. The Johannesburg-based public interest advisory and law firm works at the intersection of technology and justice. Previously, she served as a research assistant for the Accelerating Achievement for Africa’s Adolescents (Accelerate) Hub, co-located at the University of Cape Town and the University of Oxford, which sought to map paths for accelerators in the implementation of the United Nations’s 2030 development agenda.

She is available for invitations and consultations related to writing, editing, and research.

School assembly in Muscat, 2005 (by my mum)