Anam Zakaria is an oral historian and author of three books, including The Footprints of Partition: Narratives of Four Generations of Pakistanis and Indians, which won her the 2017 KLF-German Peace Prize. She writes frequently on violence, memory, narrative-making and otherization and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Walrus, CBC, Toronto Star, and Al Jazeera. She is based in Toronto where she is the Co-Founder and Strategic Director of Qissa – a storytelling platform that documents, archives and exhibits oral histories of immigrants to Canada.