Samee Ahmad

Samee Ahmad is an undergraduate student of international political economy at The University of Texas at Dallas. He has worked on decolonization research and Asian immigration/military identities with the Smithsonian APAC and NMHAAC institutions. He endeavors to understand the genealogy of community building in his work, especially within solidarity movements across post-colonial contexts.
Samee’s work has taken him to Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was involved in urban justice work in a post-apartheid spatial, political, and cultural setting, while he also co-curated and co-designed the Lahore, Pakistan, Museum of National History’s first temporary exhibition on women’s activism throughout subcontinental history. He has brought some of these urbanist understandings to a Dallas context, where he has worked with Young Leaders, Strong City in leading workshops on racialized immigrant histories. He also participates in raising consciousness for the Palestinian liberation cause on campus.
He is the student co-founder of the Dallas Urban Futures Series and Summit, which he sees as the University’s duty to its community and city to incubate radical discourse for students and community leaders on an equitable urban circumstance.