MLIS Projects 

Aisha attended Pratt Institute from Spring 2023 to Fall 2025. Throughout her time at Pratt, she worked on a variety of projects at the crossroads of Information and Knowledge Management, Accessibility, Design, Technology, Research, and more. This portfolio highlights a range of those complete projects, and is a non-exhaustive, but representative, sample of work that demonstrates competence with the Pratt MLIS learning outcomes: Foundations of Library & Information Studies, User-Centered Services, Technology, Research, and Ethical/Creative/Critical Practice. 

Better, Multilingual Library and Information Services are Possible
An Exploration of Cross-Language Information Exchange Among Researchers on the Web
Original research paper and presentation completed in Spring 2023 for INFO-601: Foundations of Information.

Cataloging for Representation
Considering Identity in Digital Collections at Thomas J. Watson Library
 A blog post and presentation describing work completed as a Library Fellow at Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from Fall 2024 to Spring 2025.
A Metadata Application Profile (MAP)
for Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD)
An original Metadata Application Profile, along with documentation, and a presentation for INFO-663: Metadata Design Spring 2025. This was a group project completed with Nene Villalobos and Collin O'Connell.

Reference Services to Incarcerated People
Answers to a series of 3 reference questions from incarcerated folks in the form of written letters. A brief reflection on the work is also included. This work was completed in Spring 2023 for INFO-652: Reference and Instruction.






Poetry


Upcoming reading at Renewal: A Poetry Coalition Fellows Reading + Q&A

Wednesday, June 24th at 8-9pm
Virtual, RSVP to attend


Aisha’s work has appeared in Womanly Magazine, and other places in time and space. She is currently assembling her debut poetry collection, Crime Scene Clean Up. Aisha is a 2025-26 Poetry Coalition Fellow hosted by Asian American Writers’ Workshop in NYC.


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Jade Fortress Martial Arts

Aisha owns and operates Jade Fortress Martial Arts, a private martial arts and fitness studio, with her partner, Barclay, in Williamsburg, BK.







© Aisha Khan 2026
A. Khan


Information professional and creative with a passion for language and a commitment to creating accessible media, technologies, and programs. She lives and works in New York City with her cat, Bingo.

Aisha Khan 





Aisha is a recent MLIS Graduate from Pratt Institute's School of Information, a 2025-2026 Poetry Coalition Fellow and Librarian at Asian American Writers' Workshop, and co-owner of Jade Fortress Martial Arts. 







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Education
Pratt Institute, MS: Library and Information Science
New York, NY
2023-2025

The Linguistic Summer Institute at University of Chicago, Extended Learning: Theme - Linguistic Theory in a World of Big Data
Chicago, IL
Summer 2015

San Francisco State University, BA: English Literature, Concentration Linguistics
San Francisco, CA
2009-2013
Experience Digital Collections Associate at The City College of New York Dominican Studies Institute Library
New York, NY
March 2026-Present

Poetry Coalition Fellow and Librarian  at Asian American Writers’ Workshop
New York, NY
October 2025-Present (1 academic year fellowship)

Thomas J. Watson Library Fellow at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (via Pratt)
New York, NY
September 2024-May 2025 (1 academic year fellowship)

Lead Program Manager, Localization at Dropbox
New York, NY (remote)
February 2022-August 2024

Digital Product Director, Womanly Magazine (Volunteer)
Brooklyn, NY
April 2017-December 2022

Technical Project Manager Senior Manager, Globalization at WeWork
New York, NY
November 2016-May 2020

Localization Project Coordinator Associate Localization Project Manager (aLPM) and Training Specialist at Google (Contract via Artech Information Systems)
New York, NY
February 2016-November 2016

Foreign Patent Filing Project Manager at Park IP Translations
New York, NY
March 2015-July 2015

Onsite Localization Project Coordinator (oLPC) at Google (Vendor via thebigword)
Mountain View, CA
October 2013-December 2014

PanLex Project Intern at The Long Now Foundation
San Francisco, CA
Summer 2013 (Summer Internship)

Offline Captioner (Student Assistant at the Disability Programs & Resource Center)
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
August 2011-May 2013
Digital ProjectsDominican Artists in the United States, since 2026

Man Without Plan, since 2025

Lesbian Herstory Archives Audio/Visual Collections: WBAI Radio Programs, circa 1970s, Fall 2025

Jade Fortress Martial Arts, since 2024

Womanly Magazine, 2017-2022
Skills
Technical Documentataion
Knowledge Organization
Collection Development
Program Management
Budget Management
Team Leadership
Accessibility
Localization
Translation
Linguistics
Cataloging
Languages
Archives
Metadata
Research
Teaching
Poetry




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