I am a director of the Three Hijabis, an award-winning, viral, campaigning activist platform working to make football and sport anti-racist and free from violence against women and girls. The Three Hijabis specialise in tackling gendered Islamophobia, develop and carry out anti-oppression training for leaders and work on carrying out systemic change in organisations.

My Fellowship is focused on examining the barriers preventing Muslim women and girls from accessing football and how to make football equitable for Muslim women and girls. I will be connecting the dots between the work being done in this area in the UK at all levels of the game, and the work being done in France, as the country prepares to host the Olympic Games in 2024. I'm also focusing on Pakistan (where my heritage is from and which has some of the highest levels of recorded violence against women and girls in the world), where there is a thriving women and girls' football sector, attracting players from the diaspora across the world.