Fatemeh Hosseini, Director, Mel King Community Fellows Program

Dr. Fatemeh Hosseini (she/her/hers) is the director of the Mel King Community Fellows Program. She is interested in how sexual politics intersects with space and our lived-expereinces. Her primary focus is on working class women who worked inside and outside of red-light districts in urban vice centers. As an educator, she has taught broadly on the intersection of desire, sex, and commerce globally and advised students at New York University, Georgetown University and the University of Maryland, College Park. Her advocacy and policy experience has been shaped by work with sex workers, injection drug-users, and immigrant survivors of gender-based violence. She brings her experience in teaching, academic administration, and fellowship management to CoLab. She is invested in and energized by the ways in which highly-selective institutions of higher education can leverage their resources and knowledge to support, sustain, and heal marginalized communities.