Revson Fellow. Her work is informed by her many years of experience as a community organizer on immigrant and worker rights issues in New York City. She is the former Director of the New York Civic Participation Project, a labor-community collaborative project of La Fuente, Inc. that works with various immigrant rights organizations and labor unions in New York and surrounding areas. Zahida has taught as an adjunct professor at CUNY’s Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies. She holds a Bachelors degree from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the New School for Social Research. Her film, Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor, screens April 26.