He serves as senior advisor to Bernie Sanders and executive director of the nonprofit media organization More Perfect Union.

Raised in Florida by Pakistani immigrants, Shakir is a progressive liberal and an advocate for Muslim American communities.

[14] In March, he helped the ACLU launch the People Power website, which engages volunteers to mobilize in defence of civil liberties.

[15] The website attracted 225,000 volunteers in eight weeks, coordinating projects such as meetings with judges to film screenings to panels on law enforcement and immigration.

[19][20] In February 2021, Shakir and Nico Pitney founded More Perfect Union, a nonprofit news and advocacy outlet modeled on ThinkProgress.

[21] Shakir describes More Perfect Union, which creates video and graphics to support labor issues, as "ThinkProgress for a digital age.