Tanzila Khan
Activist
Tanzila Khan is an entrepreneur, activist, and travel blogger from Pakistan. She champions disability rights through advocacy, writing, and media. Her ventures include Woopie Town, a board game on disability awareness, and Girlythings.pk, a menstrual healthcare startup. At 16, she published her first book and later sold her works to fund community projects in disability, women’s empowerment, education, and the environment. Through her NGO Creative Alley, she teaches youth life skills via theatre and storytelling. She also created the short film FruitChaat and launched Pakistan’s first accessible podcast, Brain Masala. In 2022, she received the Amal Clooney Women’s Empowerment Award from King Charles III in the UK.