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Negin Farsad
Panelist

Negin Farsad is a TED Fellow and gave a TEDTalk on social justice comedy seen by millions. She is a regular on NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! and Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk. She is author of the Thurber Prize-nominated How to Make White People Laugh and host of the podcast Fake the Nation. You can see her on HBO’s High Maintenance, Hulu’s upcoming Not Okay, and starring on HBO Max’s Birdgirl. Farsad has written for the Guardian, Oprah Magazine, and The New York Times. She once sued the MTA for the right to put up funny posters about Muslims, and won.