Biography:

Dilshad D. Ali is a freelance editor and journalist with recent stints as a senior columnist at Interfaith America magazine and at the Fetzer Institute. She is the former director of content and editor of The Haute Take, which covers all things pertaining to Muslim women. Ms. Ali was the managing editor of Patheos Muslim at Patheos.com and the editor of Altmuslim, a microsite at Patheos, as well as writing on the intersection of faith, family and autism at The Muslimah Next Door. She has covered Muslims, Islam in America, and religion at large for a variety of media outlets, including Religion News Service, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Islam-Online.net (before it became About Islam), Nieman Reports, Newsweek, Azizah Magazine, Illume Magazine, Islamica magazine and Beliefnet.