Career
Through her literary and academic work, Said has confronted racism, stereotyping, social and economic inequality, and among others, the specific challenges that face immigrant and second-generation Americans. She grew up on the Upper West Side. She graduated from the Chapin School and Princeton University and trained at The Shakespeare Laboratory at the Public Theatre.
Her father was the noted postcolonial scholar and public intellectual Edward Said.
In 2010, she featured in a one-woman Office Broadway play, Palestine.
