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Claim your profileAmir Khafagy is a New York City-based freelance journalist, essayist, performer, and activist. His writing has been featured in The New Republic, Vice, Bloomberg, Prism, Dame, Talk Poverty, Jacobin, and In These Times. He has been awarded The New Economics Reporting Fellowship, The Economic Hardship Reporting Grant, The Talk Poverty Writer Workshop Fellowship, the Asian American Writers Workshop Open City Fellowship, and the AARP Freelance Fellowship. Much of his work explores the intersections of Labor, Race, Class, Immigration, and Urban Development.Amir holds a BA in Urban Studies and an MA in Urban Affairs from Queens College. As a performer, Amir has appeared in Ping Chong & Company's Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity. He has also appeared in Gun Country, a Houses on the Moon theatre company production.A lifelong New Yorker, Amir was born and raised in Jackson Heights, Queens into a working-class, Muslim, immigrant family. His mother is Puerto Rican and his father is an immigrant from Egypt. Because of his mixed ethnicity, Amir describes himself as an Arab-Rican. Follow him on Twitter @AmirKhafagy91