Associate Professor in the Department of American Ethnic Studies, and formerly a faculty member in Women’s Studies. She earned her doctorate from the State University of New York at Binghamton in the interdisciplinary program of Philosophy, Interpretation & Culture where she specialized in feminist/queer of color theory, decolonial praxis and Asian American Studies. Her scholarship has always been rooted in grassroots community and coalition building. Since graduate school, Shireen has been active in the Incite! Women of Color Against Violence movement, co-founding a local Incite! chapter in Binghamton, NY, and has served as co-director for the Escuela Popular Norteña, a popular education school based in Northern New Mexico. Informed by her own struggles as a queer-identified South Asian American woman of color, Shireen has published widely on the politics of women of color coalition building, anti-imperial and decolonial feminist praxis, and the communicative strategies for U.S. South Asian immigrant and queer negotiations with post-9/11 racialized gender formations.