Renowned author, speaker and Professor at Oklahoma State University Dr Nyla Ali Khan has been appointed Commissioner on the United States of America’s Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women.
Dr Nyla is the first muslim woman of South Asia to become a member of this Commission in the State of Oklahoma-USA. She is a resident of Jammu and Kashmir.
She has been appointed for a five-year term by Senator Greg Treat, who is President Pro Tempora of the Oklahoma Senate. Dr Nyla is a Professor at Rose State College, Midwest City and teaches as a visiting Professor at the University of Oklahoma. She was a Professor at the University of Nebraska-Kearney.
Author of several published articles, book reviews and editorials, she has edited Parchment of Kashmir, a collection of essays on Jammu and Kashmir, written four books, including The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism and Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir: Between Indian and Pakistan.
Further Dr. Khan stated, “The questions to which I seek to provide well-substantiated answers are as follows: How can we, as women, develop the ability to organize and mobilize for social change, which requires the creation of awareness not just at the individual level but at the collective level as well? How can we develop self-esteem for which some form of financial autonomy is a basis? How can we make strategic life choices that are critical for people to lead the sort of lives they want to lead? We require a quality education for these mammoth tasks.”
In 2016, Khan received the Oklahoma Human Rights Award from the Oklahoma Universal Human Rights Alliance and the Oklahoma City chapter of the United Nations Association.
Women like Dr Nyla Khan are role models for the women in our society.
