Hind Makki is an interfaith educator with a background in International Relations from Brown University. She is most well known for the creation of the project Side Entrance, a project, which documents women’s prayer experiences in mosques around the world. She started the project in 2012 after finding prayer rooms for women inadequate at a Chicago based mosque. She posted about her experience online and when she was met with similar stories from women all across the world, she started the platform to share these experiences and also to educate Muslim men about the conditions that Muslim Women are left in. Her work with Side Entrance won her the Best Female Blogger award from Brass Crescent, which honors best Muslims in the blogosphere. In addition to Side Entrance, she is also an educator, leading workshops on inclusive mosques and anti racism and doing training on civic integration and community empowerment. Her writings have been featured in NPR, the New York Times, Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. She is a religious advisor to the YES program, a scholarship, which sends students from majority Muslim countries to the United States to study for a year and also serves with the Islamic Society of America. With ISA, she works on a committee that seeks to make women’s inclusions in mosques a priority across Muslim communities in the states. Hind Makki has been named one of CNN’s Top 25 Most Influential US Muslims.