Kinza Khan is a native Chicagoan, born and raised in the Chicagoland area. She has traveled internationally, and has studied abroad in Cairo, Beijing, and Morocco.

She is the daughter of Pakistani immigrants who are both clinical psychologists. She grew up learning values of love, service, and community, and she hopes to continue to embody these values through her work.

Kinza has been a practicing attorney for 10 years in the fields of human rights, domestic violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, family law, civil rights, & immigration law. She has been empowering low income and marginalized populations in Chicago through community organizing and nonprofit work.

Kinza Khan also serves as a Board Member of Muslim Bar Association of Chicago, teaches occasionally as an Adjunct Professor at DePaul University College of Law, and is a photographer.

I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
— Malcolm X, a/k/a Al Hajj Malik Al Shabazz