Ellen A. Abdulmuminov

Ellen is passionate about making education more accessible to youth, especially young women. Half of all profits from Taste of Sarband: Culinary Histories and Dishes of Tajikistan go to supporting rural and female schoolchildren in Tajikistan.

Ellen has had the honor of having several short and science fiction stories published across the web, including 365 Tomorrows, The Cross Section Journal, Managing Multicultural Scandinavia, and American Review of Canadian Studies. She has presented and served as invited speaker at the Asia in the Russian Imagination conference, the UW International Security Colloquium, Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics, Washington Institute on the Study of Inequality and Race, Experience America Exchange Program, and seminars for the UW Department of Scandinavian Studies. She runs her blog, "Trek Tajikistan" from Seattle, Washington