More About Azhar Khanmohamed

Azhar Khanmohamed is a 1st gen Pakistani organizer with roots in Los Angeles, California, Atlanta, Georgia, and San Antonio, Texas. After completing their education in 2020, Azhar has gone on to work on a number of food sovereignty, housing justice, and movement-building projects across the country, deepening their skills as a farmer, community organizer, fundraiser, popular educator, and network weaver. Most notably, they co-founded Atplanta, a sliding scale vegetable garden service and community farm/nursery in Atlanta, and they served as the senior network strategist for the LA Housing Movement Lab, which seeks to build the movement for decommodified housing in Los Angeles. Through these experiences, they have developed a political framework which emphasizes the decommodification of basic human rights, and the cultivation of community-controlled economic systems that prioritizes frontline communities.

In addition to their movement-building work, they are also a yoga instructor at Tree Yoga Co-op, a BIPOC yoga studio in South LA, and an outdoor educator with Outward Bound Adventures, a youth development organization which takes BIPOC youth of color into the outdoors. As a facilitator in these contexts, they often deploy popular education, somatics, and eco-literacy to support the critical examination of existing institutions and expansion of the radical imagination.

In their free time, you can probably find Azhar surfing their local beach break 🏄🏽‍♂️ , exploring the outdoors 🏞️, thrifting for a new outfit 👗, or recreating tik tok trends with their friends 🙂