Rida Khan
Company: Sajecki Planning and Director of Karachi, Public
Title: Urban Designer, Planner
Expert Overview
Rida is an expert on issues of urban design, city planning, cities, and inequity in cities.
Rida Khan is an Urban Designer and Planner centering human rights in placemaking efforts.
She is the creator and director of the "Karachi, Public" platform aimed at elevating public interest via proactive public advocacy and participation. As a Planner, Rida has worked in large-scale private and public sector projects. She believes in active collaboration and skills-sharing to elevate and support placemakers and urban advocates.
She is a brown Muslim woman navigating a non-Muslim, white, male-dominated profession that has created a system of city planning that is inequitable across socioeconomic conditions of people in our cities. She is born and raised in South Asia (Karachi). She has lived, studied and worked in Toronto, and is now based in Kitchener while she works from home at her firm in Toronto.
Education
University of Toronto
Urban Design
Masters
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Op-ed writing and analysis