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Lena Afridi

Lena Afridi is trained in urban planning and has written about and organized around work, cities, and race for over 10 years. Her work has been featured in Al Jazeera, the Guardian, and Next City. Lena is a South Asian immigrant born in Karachi, Pakistan, and raised in Queens, New York, where she still lives.

Essays & Reviews

Death and Life in Great American Cities

By Lena AfridiMay 20, 2019
To bury a loved one from Queens is to confront displacement in the here and beyond
Features

The State of the Unions

By Lena Afridi, Christina Fox, Farah Khimji and Lena SolowNovember 14, 2017
A group of people from various positions and experiences with labor unions and worker movements gathered to discuss the problems and potential of labor organizing today. What follows is an edited version of their conversation.
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