Asra speaks on a broad range of topics, including women’s empowerment, her investigative reporting and her journey of moral courage.

Asra has several powerful themes she has spoken to hundreds of audiences about:

Insidious: ‘Hamas is Comin’

Tapping two decades of reporting for her book, Woke Army: The Red-Green Alliance That Is Undermining America’s Freedom, Asra takes audiences into the streets and onto the campuses where an insidious mix of organizations are fomenting social discord, expressing dangerous anti-Semitism and exploiting America’s freedoms to undermine the nation. She relates the story of an activist who climbed the statue at Columbus Circle in Washington, D.C., to paint a frightening message in red graffiti: “HAMAS IS COMIN.” She documents the network of malign foreign influence that uses manipulative propaganda to hijack brains. And she offers solutions on who audiences can inoculate themselves.

Stepping through the Front Door: The Quest for Women’s Rights

Drawing from her book, Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam, Asra tells a powerful story about her journey for women’s and girls’ rights. She takes listeners with her to the front door of her mosque in Morgantown, W.V., where she had to decide whether to step through the front door or accept an uncle’s order that she take a back door reserved for women. Her special mix of first-hand experiences, critical thinking and deep reporting empowers any audience to challenge dogmatism and advocate for women’s rights.

The Divine Feminine: It’s Not New Age, It’s a Necessity

Chronicling her journeys from temples to sacred pilgrimage sites, captured in her book, Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love, Asra chronicles the transcendent but very grounded journey she made, like countless women before her, to find her inner power, truth and purpose. Asra captures her journey living with authenticity and congruence in her identity as an American Muslim woman born in India and raised in West Virginia. She finds her clarity riding a Hero Honda Splendor motorcycle to her mother’s ancestral village in northern India, awakening with the sun’s rise and sleeping under the stars. She recognizes her power when her close friend Daniel Pearl is kidnapped from a home she rents in Karachi, Pakistan, and she touches the divine in the most unexpected of surprises.

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Oct. 25, 2007, Wooster Area Chamber of Commerce, Wooster, Ohio. “How Today’s DEI betrays the American Dream.”

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Dec. 6, 2007, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Ca. “The Paradox of Women in Islam”