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Tasmiha Khan

Tasmiha Khan is an independent journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and Vox, among other outlets. Currently, Tasmiha covers a wide range of topics related to health, race, politics, culture, and religion. This past year, Khan was named a Fellow for Knight Science Journalism at MIT, a IFYC/RNS Religion Journalism Fellow, a Higher Education Media Fellow at the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, and Woodrow Wilson Higher Education Media Fellow.

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Yasir Syed, 12, puts his lunch in his backpack before leaving for school from his home in Glendale Heights, Ill., Nov. 11, 2022. Syed’s mother packed him a halal meal of macaroni and cheese and pineapple. Photo by Michelle Kanaar/Borderless Magazine

Illinois Students Struggle to Find Halal Food

By Tasmiha Khan

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Stories by Our Fellows

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April 28, 2025

Despite a growing Muslim population in the Chicago area, few public schools offer students halal food options. (Originally published by Borderless Magazine)

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Discriminated and Invisible

By Valeria María Torres-Nieves

Pregnant students or with children deal with a lack of university support and discrimination in the oldest and largest public university in Puerto Rico. (Originally published by Todas, the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo and palabra)

Illinois Students Struggle to Find Halal Food

By Tasmiha Khan

Despite a growing Muslim population in the Chicago area, few public schools offer students halal food options. (Originally published by Borderless Magazine)

To Age in Place

By Meera Kymal & Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney

With an Aging Population that Needs Culturally Competent Care, Families Face A Caregiver Crunch. (Originally published by India Currents and palabra)

Recycling in obscurity

By Frank López Ballesteros

Invisible but essential to the global recycling industry, the cardboard collectors of Miami-Dade earn a living by breaking down each piece of cardboard by hand, with no guaranteed income or labor protections. (Originally published by Intempnews, palabra and Diario las Americas)

The women of La Parada

By Andrea Pineda Salgado

Excluded from many labor laws, Brooklyn’s informal domestic workers seek basic rights. (Originally published by Epicenter and palabra)

Neglected and exposed

By Alejandra Martinez & Wendy Selene Pérez

Toxic air lingers in a Texas Latino community, revealing failures in state’s air monitoring system and leaving residents in the dark. (Originally published by The Texas Tribune, Environmental Health News and palabra)