Ayesha is the founder and president of Ayesha Pande Literary, which she founded in 2007. Before becoming an agent she held editorial positions at Crown Publishers, HarperCollins and Farrar Straus and Giroux. She is on the board of Art Omi and a member of the Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the AALA, where she also helped launch the non-profit Literary Agents of Change. Her client roster includes Ibram X. Kendi, Patricia Engel, Danielle Evans, Matthew Salesses and Lisa Ko. While her interests are wide-ranging and eclectic, she works mostly with literary fiction, narrative nonfiction across a broad range of topics including history and cultural commentary, memoir and biography, and the occasional work of young adult fiction. She is drawn to distinctive voices with a compelling point of view and memorable characters.