Meryum Kazmi is the Senior Coordinator of Programming and Engagement for the Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University and producer and co-host of the Harvard Islamica Podcast. After working in urban education through AmeriCorps and BPE (formerly Boston Plan for Excellence), she became more interested in Islamic studies and was a student, instructor and program manager at Fawakih, an Arabic institute based in Herndon, Virginia. Meryum also studied and later taught grammar at the Qasid Arabic Institute in Amman, Jordan. She earned her BA in History at Georgetown University and AM in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.