Farooq Ameen Al-Said

Bio

Farooq Ameen Al-Said is an award winning, Emmy nominated Artivist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, residing in Pittsburgh, Pa. He has gone from a once incarcerated individual to K-8 classroom teacher and now serves as Director Of Education for the national Arts & Activism collective, 1Hood Media.

An MC, stage actor and educator, Farooq, has seen success in many creative mediums. After a major label deal and success in the “blog era” of rap, he turned his attention to education and activism. With a pedagogy that sits in the intersection of arts, education and social justice, Farooq has spoken globally, even teaching a course of equity in education at the University of Sydney, Australia. Currently, Farooq is one of the cohosts of the nationally syndicated podcast, “This Week In White Supremacy” which is at the moment one of the most watched political talk shows in the country.