Tanzila Khan is a disability rights activist, entrepreneur, and accessible-travel writer from Pakistan, currently based between Pakistan and Sweden. She has traveled solo across more than 30 countries on wheels, writing honestly about what accessibility actually looks like on the ground. When something fails, she says so directly, and her open letters to airlines like Qatar Airways, Air France, and Vueling have pushed the travel industry to answer for how it treats disabled passengers.
Her travel writing has appeared in JourneyWoman, Adventure.com, Resonate, and Disability Debrief, covering everything from accessible hostels in Bangkok to what it actually takes to fly through European airports in a wheelchair.
She holds a Master’s in Entrepreneurship from Uppsala University and has spoken on disability inclusion at platforms including the Skift Global Forum, the World Summit Award, and the Women of the World Festival. She also co-developed a six-module self-advocacy curriculum with Imperial College London and the University of Lahore, funded by the British Council, and hosts Brain Masala, one of Pakistan’s first fully accessible podcasts.
Through her NGO, Creative Alley, she helps young people build life skills through theatre and storytelling, work that also led her into filmmaking and acting, including a heart-warming short film on disability called FruitChaat. Her entrepreneurial ventures include Woopie Town, a board game designed to teach accessibility, and Girlythings.pk, a menstrual healthcare startup. She wrote her first book, A Story of Mexico, at just sixteen, and followed it with The Perfect Situation. Proceeds from both have gone toward community projects in disability, women’s empowerment, education, and the environment.