Farhana Huq, Brown Girl Surf

Farhana Huq, founder of Brown Girl Surf, first stood on a surfboard at the late age of 26. She didn’t realize this moment would change her life. Farhana fell head over heels in love with the sport which would lead her to start Brown Girl Surf, a unique project that synthesizes her journey to go pro with surfing with a broader journey of finding and supporting the first female surfers around the world. Before this journey, Farhana already had quite a few adventures to talk about. She’s done everything from creating educational soap operas to helping low-income immigrant women start their own businesses in America, to traveling the world to find other female surfers. She began volunteering when she was 14, and eventually worked on issues of homelessness and housing, dance arts programs for youth and anti-war activism for Congo