Shireen Alihaji is the granddaughter of Sedigheh, Assadollah, Georgina and Humberto. 

​B. 1987 Los Angeles, in the occupied land still inhabited and cared for by the Tongva,
Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh, and Chumash Peoples.

She is an Iranian-Ecuadorian, Muslim, Disabled artist and educator. Her revolving histories inspire her to steward spaces of solidarity and belonging through narrative change, creative direction and programming. Her storytelling repurposes present day technologies, with the ancestral, responding to the current moment the way her ancestors would–with poetry as preservation, imagination as resistance, and collective memory as a form of archival repair. 

With over a decade supporting labor unions and non-profits with media justice, she has developed a social arts practice across all her projects.  She Co-presented Flipping the Gaze: Restorative Filmmaking Techniques, Memory As Technology (William and Louise Greaves Seminar) and has been published in Blue Print for Muslim Inclusion (Pillars, USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiate, Left Handed Films). She has served as a restorative arts educator (Vigilant Love, Femme Frontera, Las Fotos Project, CRSELA) and served as Artist Support for the Islamic Scholarship Fund where she co-created Muslim Centered programming; an evolving framework that supports Muslim storytellers restore, center and define their narratives.

​As a student of the Arts & Healing Initiative, she prototyped a creative lab for caregivers and self-published an anthology titled Recipes for Care. Today, she is a Brooklyn Poets fellow, in development with several literary projects and is a student of the Institute for Art and Olfaction.

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