Hamid Khan

Hamid Khan is the coordinator with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a broad coalition whose primary goal is to raise public awareness, participation, mobilization, and action on police spying and surveillance and to sustain long-term intersectional movement building. Hamid immigrated to the United States from Pakistan in 1979.  As founder and former Executive Director of South Asian Network (1990 – 2010), Hamid helped create the first grassroots community-based organization in Los Angeles committed to informing and empowering thousands of South Asians in Southern California to act as agents of change in eliminating biases, discrimination and injustices. Hamid is also the founding member of the Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance, on the board of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, and on the board of Generation 5, whose mission is to end child sexual abuse within 5 generations by advancing transformative justice.