Zayan (he/him) identifies as a Dalit Queer feminist who works at Nazariya QFRG as a Senior Programme Coordinator. He is a trained educator and has experience in teaching children, researching and analysing the field of education and teacher education from the lens of gender and sexuality. He is a TEDx speaker and one of the Rise Up fellows selected from India in the year 2021. He has been featured by The Times of India (2021) and The Washington Post (2023). He was a part of the International Trans Advocacy Week (TAW) in 2022 and was invited as an Asian Delegate to TAW this year. In 2023, he was also selected for the LBQ Connect programme by Outright International. He has published on platforms like The New Leam, The Teacher Plus, Contemporary Education Dialogues, and has recently written a children’s storybook called Chintu’s Shirt which is a story of a gender non-conforming child. In his free time, he loves to read and strum the strings of his guitar.
