Sharan Dhaliwal founded the UK’s leading South Asian culture magazine Burnt Roti, which is a platform for young creatives to showcase their talent, find safe spaces and de-stigmatise topics around mental health and sexuality, amongst others.

She is also the Founder and Co-Director of Middlesex Pride, an annual free family friendly event centring and celebrating the unheard LGBTQIA+ community in the heavily immigrant Middlesex area.

She created Oh Queer Cupid, a queer speed dating and comedy night, and has had by-lines in i-D, HuffPost, the Guardian and was on the list of global influential women for the BBC 100 Women 2019.

She has also been on the Diva Power List 2022 & 2023, Attitude 101 2023 and nominated for Broadcast, Journalist or Host at the British LGBT Awards in 2023.

Her memoir Burning my Roti was published by Hardie Grant in 2022.