Farhana Islam

Multilingual outreach and education professional with over 6 years of experience in higher education, community engagement, and communication. Skilled in grant management, volunteer coordination, grant writing, and event planning. Passionate about equity, cross-cultural communication, and building inclusive programs that serve underserved communities.

• Ignorance’ of Rights: Politics of Religious Sentiments vs Human Rights in Bangladeshi School Textbooks, Society & Change, Vol. XII, No.1, 01/01/18, 1997-1052, 227-202X
• Moving Towards a Comparative Feminist Borderlands Studies: Everyday Decolonial Praxis, and New Female Immigrant Subjectivities in South Asian and North American Borderlands, Women Representing Women: A Transnational Perspective, volume I, Vernon Press, 2024

• Mobilizer, GSEU (Graduate Student Employee Union), UAlbany, SUNY, Protecting the rights of Graduate Student Workers, collecting signed cards, and lobbying bills at the legislators in the Capital Region.
• Vice-President, EGSO (English Graduate Student Association), UAlbany, SUNY, Organizing departmental events that address graduate students’ struggles against racism and gender discrimination and promote personal and intellectual growth.