Sana Amanat
Sana Amanat is an American comic book editor and an executive of production and development at Marvel Studios, having formerly been the Director of Content and Character Development at Marvel Comics. She has worked on comics such as Captain Marvel, Hawkeye, Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, and Ms. Marvel. Amanat is known for co-creating Kamala Khan/MMs. Marvel, the first Muslim-American superhero with a solo Marvel Comics series. Amanat was born in New Jersey to Pakistani immigrants. Her family is Muslim. Throughout her childhood, Amanat had trouble fitting in and struggled with her identity. Amanat studied political science with a focus on the Middle East at Barnard College at Columbia University in 2004. Amanat was born in New Jersey to Pakistani immigrants. Her family is Muslim. Throughout her childhood, Amanat had trouble fitting in and struggled with her identity. Amanat studied political science with a focus on the Middle East at Barnard College at Columbia University in 2004. After college, Amanat worked in magazine publishing for a few years. She then worked for an indie comic book company, Virgin Comics. There, Amanat learned about graphic storytelling. Two years later, the company went out of business. Amanat's next career move was to join Marvel Comics in 2009. According to Amanat, an executive at Marvel approached her for the job because she was different from their average employee. Amanat runs the annual Women of Marvel panel at Comic Con and does work to make Marvel characters more diverse. Since 2014, Amanat has also co-hosted the Women of Marvel podcast; by 2020, the podcast had released over 200 episodes. In 2014, she co-created Marvel's first solo series to feature a female Muslim superhero, the relaunched Ms. Marvel comic; the series was headlined by a new character, Kamala Khan. The conception of Khan came about during a conversation between Amanat and Marvel editor Stephen Wacker. Amanat said that the series came from a "desire to explore the Muslim-American diaspora from an authentic perspective." Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal was the best-selling graphic novel in October 2014, and it won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story in 2015. Several volumes of the series have been on The New York Times Best Seller list of paperback graphic books. As of August 2018, Ms. Marvel has sold half a million trade paperbacks, not including digital sales. Ms. Marvel has also sold well digitally and has at times been Marvel's top digital seller overall. Amanat has been the Director of Content and Character Development at Marvel Comics since February 2015. Amanat was a co-executive producer on the animated television film Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors (2018) and the subsequent animated specials in the Marvel Rising series. She was also a co-executive producer on the unscripted documentary series Marvel's Hero Project (2019). Amanat joined Marvel Studios by mid-2019, where she is an executive of production and development. She is an executive producer on Marvel Studios' Ms. Marvel (2022), a Disney+ television adaptation based on the comic series of the same name; she cameos in the third episode of the series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sana Amanat, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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