Maryam Chishti

Maryam Chishti is the Co-Executive Director of The LUNAR Collective, which cultivates connection, belonging and visibility for Asian American Jews through intersectional programming, performance, digital storytelling and other media. The organization is the first and only organization to create communal spaces for Asian American Jews, and also project the rich diversity of the Jewish community to the wider society.

Maryam, the mixed-race daughter of an Indian father and a Jewish American mother, is a graduate of the Upstart Venture Accelerator Program, UJA’s Ruskay Institute of Jewish Professional Leadership and the Jews of Color Initiative’s Leadership Fellowship. She is also the founder of Moishe House Lower Manhattan. 

Maryam has brought her community’s representation to the fore through positions in the Office of Senator Charles Schumer of New York, the New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, and the 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. Outside of LUNAR, Maryam enjoys storytelling at venues like The Moth, and performing with her improv troupe. Maryam has a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from Brandeis University.