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Name Wajahat Ali

Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB Born in 1980. As of 2024, he is around 44 years old.

Wedding & Marriage / Wife / Partner Married. Check the full bio for relationship details.

Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

Wajahat Ali is an American attorney & consultant, who has worked for the U.S State Department. He is also a journalist and a writer.
Ali speaks mostly about the complex Muslim American experience and how the new generation is striving for a change.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

Wajahat grew up in Fremont, California, in a big family of Pakistani origin.
His parents brought him up in a traditional but open-minded fashion – His dad was clean-shaven & his mom did not wear a hijab. The family, however, did follow certain Islamic doctrines like fasting during Ramadan and praying five times a day. He also attended Quran lessons.

Ali is now married and has a young daughter named Nusayba. Unfortunately, she had stage four cancer, but after a successful liver transplant, she is cancer-free. He and his family currently live in Washington, D.C.

Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info

Wajahat went to high school at Bellarmine College Preparatory, graduating in 1998.

Post that, he began studying at the University of California, Berkeley. Ali earned a Bachelor’s degree in English in 2002, but two years later he enrolled in school again. This time he attended the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) where he studied law. He graduated from there in 2007.

Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

From 2007 – 2010, Wajahat worked for Altmuslim as an Associate Editor where he used to provide a global perspective on Muslim culture, life, and politics.

While still working at Altmuslim, he was also working at Ali Consulting as a consultant until August 2010.
In the middle of working for Altmuslim, he also founded the Law Offices of Wajahat Ali where he worked as an attorney. He continued to work in this business in conjunction with his other jobs.
From February 2011 to January 2012, Wajahat worked at the Center for American Progress as a writer and researcher.

In March 2012, he started off as a consultant at the U.S Department of State. Here, he helped strategize and implement a leadership training program aimed to empower global change agents and young social entrepreneurs. For this role, he held multi-day training programs in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Maldives & many other countries in conjunction with American consular staff.
In mid-2013, he quit doing lawyer work and switched over to working on Al Jazeera’s show The Stream. There he performed the duties of a digital producer and co-host. The show relied heavily on social media.
In 2015, he took on the role of a political reporter and national correspondent at Al Jazeera America in Washington D.C.

One year later, Ali moved to Virginia and began working as a Creative Director for Affinis Labs. He worked with Facebook, United Nations, and Google to help them shape their projects so that they included the global community.
Starting in 2016, he began contributing to different news stations and newspapers. He worked for the Huffington Post, New York Times, and CNN. In addition to all these jobs, Ali found time to write The Domestic Crusaders in 2005 and was both the curator and adviser for The M Wordseries.

Trivia and Achievements :

Wajahat has won an award for the film about the Muslim American experience, “The Domestic Crusader,” which was aired in 2005.
He is the founder of the Blog Goatmilk: An Intellectual Playground, where he was the blogger and editor. It was ranked as one of the top political blogs.
He was also a Peabody nominated producer for his series The Secret Life of Muslims.

Wajahat’s grandfather was born in India but later moved to Karachi, Pakistan, with his wife and young children, in 1952. In 1965, his father immigrated to the United States as a college student. By 1973, Wajahat’s grandparents landed in Chicago to care for his dad, who was sick with Hodgkin’s disease. Thus, the Ali family made America their new home.
After the COVID-19 crisis stuck in early 2020, he changed his Twitter handle to Wajahat “Wears a Mask Because of a Pandemic” Ali.