Sara Khan (human rights activist)

Sara Khan is a British Muslim human rights activist and the director of Inspire, a counter-extremism and women’s rights organisation which she co-founded in 2009. She is a contributor to The Guardian and The Independent newspapers, as well as The Huffington Post and has made numerous appearances on British television and radio. She helped launch Inspire’s Jihad Against Violence campaign and the anti-Isis campaign #makingastand which was supported by the Home Secretary.

In September 2005 after the London bombings, Sara sat on the Home Office's Tackling Extremism and Radicalisation Working Group. Following this she sat on the Department for Education’s Due Diligence and Counter-Extremism Expert Reference group headed by Lord Nash.

In March 2009, Sara was listed in the Equality and Human Rights Commission Muslim Women’s Power List.

In January 2015 Sara was recognised as one of Britain’s 500 most influential people, in the prestigious Debrett’s War and Peace category as someone who is working towards peace and stability in the United Kingdom.

In March 2015 she was named the 2015 Kraemer Middle East Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, the Wendy & Emery Reves Center for International Studies and the Program in Comparative Legal Studies and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding at the William & Mary School of Law in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.