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Hamid Khan

01 · In focus

One person, in the field.

The structured facts the source records about Hamid Khan, the count of declared adjacencies in the corpus, and the federation map zoomed on this node and its neighbours.

person

↑4 declared connections

Kind
Person
Status
active
Confidence
high
Entity ID
person-hamid-khan
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Tags los-angeles, california, skid-row, west-coast, us, pakistani-american, immigrant, community-organizer, abolitionist, police-surveillance, predictive-policing, algorithmic-policing, stop-lapd-spying-coalition, south-asian-network, la-taxi-workers-alliance, immigrant-rights, workers-rights, open-society-foundations, soros-justice-fellowship

Hamid Khan · 2 direct neighbours visible

02 · Connections

4 adjacencies, by relation.

Split by direction. Direct links are the ones Hamid Khan’s source record names; inferred backlinks are records elsewhere in the corpus that point at this entity. Some records appear in both because the corpus names them from both sides — those rows carry a note.

Direct from this record

2 links

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Inferred backlinks

2 links

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03 · Background

From the source record.

Body prose as it appears in movement-graph’s published markdown for this entity. Links to other corpus entities resolve to their graph page; links to deeper repo paths are kept as text so the page does not invent a route.

Hamid Khan is a Pakistani-born community organizer based in Los Angeles whose 35-year career spans immigrant rights (founding and directing South Asian Network, 1990–2010, the first grassroots South Asian community organization in Los Angeles), workers' rights (founding member of the Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance), and police surveillance abolition (founder and Coalition Coordinator of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, 2011–present). Recipient of a 2011 Soros Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Foundations to challenge LAPD surveillance practices. Board affiliations: Political Research Associates; National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights; Youth Justice Coalition; Generation 5; May First Movement Technology. Campaign record, public output, and signature framings are recorded on the linked Voice entry.

04 · Sources

Where this came from.

3 sources listed from the pinned corpus. Links are shown only when the source URL is a valid HTTP(S) address.

  1. technologyreview.com

    Checked 2026-06-07

    MIT Technology Review "The activist dismantling racist police algorithms" (5 June 2020) — primary source for Khan's self-description as Coalition founder, his 35-year Los Angeles community-organizer career, and his named statement attributing the 2020 PredPol cancellation to sustained community organizing ("This was clearly the community rising up")

  2. unequalcities.org

    Checked 2026-06-07

    Unequal Cities bio — primary source for Khan's arrival in the US from Pakistan in 1979, his founding of South Asian Network in 1990 and service as Executive Director through 2010, his founding membership in the Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance, his 2006 California State Assembly honor for excellence in public service, and his 2003 selection for LA Stories: The Power of One by Facing History and Ourselves

  3. politicalresearch.org

    Checked 2026-06-07

    Political Research Associates bio — primary source for Khan's board membership at Political Research Associates, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Youth Justice Coalition, Generation 5, and May First Movement Technology; corroborates Coalition coordinator role and Soros Justice Fellowship (2011)

Source: entities/persons/person-hamid-khan.md — movement-graph pin 914cdfd.