Samia Shahnawaz

Secretary on the Dungeon Books 501(c)(3) board. Carrie’s friend. Bookstagrammer, healthcare data scientist.

Background

Day job: Data scientist at the Windreich Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health).
Education: MPH, Biostatistics, NYU.
Bookstagram: @bookaroundandfindout — active reader, Goodreads ~323 books logged.

Secretary of the 501(c)(3) board (board officer).
Treated as disinterested under §4958 family-member rules.
Soft caveat on “disinterested” optics: her partner Abhi was Panat’s hire as founding engineer at Cassi. Not a §4958 issue — third-party prior employment doesn’t trigger it — but worth noting for grant-funder optics and any vote where pure independence matters. Loads the clean-independence story onto seat #3 (gallery-owner intro pending).

Books credibility: active bookstagrammer is on-thesis for an arts nonprofit centered on speculative fiction and reading culture. Useful for community legitimacy and grant narrative.
Quantitative chops: biostatistics MPH + Mount Sinai data science role is unusual on an arts nonprofit board and useful for impact reporting, grant-application metrics, and rigorous program evaluation later.
Pre-existing trust with Carrie: friendship predates the nonprofit; lower coordination cost in early-stage governance.

Partner: Abhi (Panat’s hire as founding engineer at Cassi). Not on paper anywhere at Dungeon Books or the nonprofit. Standalone people note worth creating if Abhi becomes more involved.