Name: Aizzah Fatima

Recipient Year: 2020

Sponsor: Foundation for Intelligent Giving

Description: Aizzah Fatima is a writer and actor from Mississippi by way of Saudi Arabia. She has been featured on NPR, The Guardian, and BBC and in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The New York Times, and The Huffington Post. Aizzah is a recipient of a 2020 Roddenberry Impact Award and 2020 Yes, And...Laughter Lab sponsored by Comedy Central. Her short film titled Off Duty won an honorable mention in the New York Women in Film Festival and was made available on airlines and Amazon for viewing this year. Alongside ISF Film Grant Director and Emmy award-winning filmmaker Iman Zawahry, Aizzah completed her first feature film Americanish.