Mona Shaikh
Meet Minority Reportz Founder, beautiful badass Pakistani-American Mona Shaikh. Overcoming Mona’s tumultuous and abusive childhood from a conservative Muslim Pakistani background takes strength, courage, and a definite moral compass. Mona has those qualities in spades. Having grown up with physical abuse from parents & her 4 older brothers, to almost being married off to a 40 year old at the age of 17 to being a victim of a hate crime at Beverly Center by some pampered woman, a total stranger, who found her darker skin offensive which resulted in a hospital stay and surgery. Mona has overcome a lot and she isn't slowing down anytime soon.
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Mona started out Minority Reportz at The Comedy Store in Sep. 2015 out of a need to see "other" darker-skinned female comedians like herself on stage. Comedians like Tiffany Haddish, Iliza Schlesinger, Nikki Glaser, Finesse Mitchell, have all participa
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