Robbie Ahmed is a New York/Toronto based songwriter/producer, writer, actor, educator & researcher. Growing up between Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Bangladesh, he covers & advocates for topics such as home, healing, grief, health & mental health, cultural & gender studies, music tech, vulnerability, spirituality, and trans representation in media & gaming.

He is the subject of GLAAD award winning comic anthology “Becoming Who We Are“ (A Wave Blue World edited by Hazel Mead), a story illustrated by Victor Martins that showcases trans professionals on their journey to their careers and his journey as writer, musician & educator working in uplifting voices of people of colour in the arts.

Writing

His writing & work was featured in Finders Grievers Podcast (Sonar Network), Naked Heart Festival, New Normal Comedy Show (2025), California State University (2021), International South Asian Creativity Festival (2022), Flame Con NYC (2022), YOHOMO, Elephant Journal, Rest for Resistance, These Pills Don’t Come in my Skin Tone, Nuance Media, and many other publications where he served either as a writer, editor & consultant in genres spanning gaming, campaigns, medical writing, queer horror & sci-fi, music journalism, and autobiography.

Music

He has played music at Toronto's Storyteller's Festival (2019), Pride Toronto (2020- 2021), Muslim Pride NYC, Gladstone Hotel, Handlebar, Sellers and Newel, Hugh’s Room, Tranzac Club, Rivoli, Free Times Cafe, Array Music, The Casbah Lounge, & Black Swan Tavern. He has co-written songs at Beat Cave, Songwriter’s Association of Canada, Loud Studios, and Song Studio’s Songwriting Showcase at Hugh’s Room. His music was was featured in Moon Glow Radio, CTJM Radio, Otherness Archive- UK, Fruit Salad compilation album of queer artists, and Exit Points Vinyl “You Are the Right Length” showcasing 35 musicians in experimental & improvised electronic music. He has Interned at Gonzo’s Studios in East Village, Manhattan.

He has also composed for Kay Chan’s short animation “Will Flowers” that was featured in Inside Out, Toronto Queer Film Festival, TIFF, and Imaginative Film Festival, Available Light Film Festival (2022), JUNIOR Toronto International Children’s Festival (2022), First Nations Film and Video Festival (2022), TQFF x ICCA Indigiqueer and Two-Spirit Event (2022), ART200 International Queer Film Festival (Bucharest, Romania).

He is in the process of releasing his first debut indie/electro soul 4 Track EP “What is the point of all of these emotions?” produced by UK’s Steven Bamidele.

Advocacy and Education

Outside of his art, he worked over 10 years professionally in academic & professional writing support for Arts, Humanities & Social work at Seneca College, was the spokesperson city campaigns (Toronto4All - Breakfast Television, Getting Through the Hard Times: South Asian LGBTQ Mental Health resource) and research in trans inclusion in HIV sector in Ontario (Trans Interweaving Research Project - TIP, PRIM3D & Primed4u, SHIFT study). He worked also worked in facilitating racialized mental health programming at Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention and sitting on board of Directors at Across Boundaries, an ethno-racial mental health organization in Toronto. for advocating on building their first QTBIPOC mental health services.

In 2021, he was the host & moderator of RARICA NOW’s International Stonewall Conference (2021) in Edmonton, Alberta and was the presenter at World Trans Tech Social (2022) on project management talking about leading from photoshoots, content/website development as well as promotions. In 2020, he was named Hoser Magazine’s “4 Queer Educators on the Rise in Greater Toronto Area”.

Current Projects

Robbie Ahmed is currently a Masters Candidate in NYU Steinhardt Music Technology Program focusing on intersections of Music Tech & Global music fusion & works as freelance music producer & writer.

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