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Awista Ayub is the Director of ������Ƶ’s Fellows Program. She is the author of .

Ayub has served as an advisory council member and contributor to and has written extensively about issues pertaining to Muslim women in sports. She was named one of 32 “” in ESPN the Magazine’s Title IX’s 40th-anniversary issue.

Prior to joining ������Ƶ, Ayub worked as the Director of South Asia programs at Seeds of Peace and was based in Mumbai, India, with extensive travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan for three years of her six years in this role. She also worked for the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, DC, as the education and health officer.

In 2004, Ayub founded Afghanistan’s first girl’s soccer team—a program that was featured on ESPN as a recipient of the 2006 ESPY’s Arthur Ashe Courage Award. Her media appearances include ABC News (Person of the Week), NPR, ESPN, Glamour magazine, CNN, New York Daily News, Sports Illustrated, San Francisco Chronicle, Washingtonian, and USA Today.

Ayub received her BS in chemistry from the University of Rochester, and her MPA from the University of Delaware.