AMCLI 2011 - 2012 Fellows
We are pleased to announce the new AMCLI fellows for 2011-2012.
Amira Ahmed
Amira Ahmed is founder and executive director of Midwest Community Development, Inc. (MCDI). She has been recognized as a leader in expanding Somali women dream, building cross-cultural collaborations, streamlining idea and incorporating accountability measures, and promoting strategies to increase individual...
Reema Ahmad
Reema Ahmad is the executive director of Project Mobilize, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing civic participation and representation from politically marginalized communities. In its first year, Project M recruited, trained, and ran seven Muslim American candidates for local offices. A...
Fahd Ahmed
Fahd Ahmed is legal and policy director of Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM). Currently, Ahmed leads DRUM’s work on national security, racial profiling, and police accountability in the Racial and Immigrant Justice program, and is also developing a community...
Marwa Aly
Marwa Aly has been the Muslim Chaplain at Trinity College and Wesleyan University since 2008. She is an activist that provides pastoral care from an Islamic perspective and guidance counseling for the Muslim students on campus. She has been invited...
Urooj Arshad
Urooj Arshad is the associate director, Equity and Social Justice at Advocates for Youth. She provides capacity building services to community based organizations working with youth of color around reproductive and sexual health. She has also designed a project that...
Ameen Ashraf
Ameen currently serves as the president of Islamic Circle of Bay Area, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. Driven by a desire that American Muslims should play out their faith by benefiting the society at large, he was previously responsible for...
Muneer Awad
Muneer Awad is the executive director of the Oklahoma Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK). Before working with CAIR-OK, Awad helped launch an international renewable energy company based in New York that provided solar powered equipment to developing...
Nur Aziz
Nur Aziz is the marketing and outreach manager at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center. In this capacity, she coordinates community programming, runs outreach projects and develops the overall marketing strategy for the ISBCC. Nur is also the program...
Nadia Firozvi
Nadia J. Firozvi serves as a policy advisor in the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. She previously served as domestic policy coordinator at the Arab American Institute and for three years,...
Tannaz Haddadi
Tannaz Haddadi is a co-founder of the Next Wave Muslim Initiative (NWMI), Inc., which works to engage the Muslim community in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. NWMI is an organization that aims to galvanize the talents and serve the needs...
Karim Hakim
Karim Hakim is the program manager for MY DEEN, a Muslim non-profit organization based in Fresno, California, that is dedicated to connecting Muslims to faith and community through several campaigns and programs. Hakim has also served as a coordinator and...
Sarah Jawaid
Jawaid is the director of Green Muslims (GM). GM is a group started to raise awareness of global environmental issues within a Muslim community while hoping to create a language of Muslim-based environmentalism that precipitates across communities. GM organizes events...
Zahir Latheef
Zahir Latheef is the president of MSA National, an umbrella organization for Muslim Student Association (MSA) chapters across the U.S. and Canada. He has worked extensively with the MSA Lone Star Council (LSC), a coalition of MSAs in Texas, conducting...
Rushdan Mujahid-Deen
Rushdan Mujahid-Deen is assistant imam of Masjid Bilal Islamic Center. From 2001-2005, Imam Rushdan worked with the National Young Adult Association (NYAA) as the Western Sectional representative and vice president. As a member of the NYAA, he was invited to...
Hironao Okahana
Hironao Okahana is an active member of the Islamic Institute of Orange County in Anaheim, California, where he serves as associate chair of the public relations committee. He also serves on the board of directors of Associated Students of UCLA,...
Amanda Quraishi
Amanda Quaraishi is the web and database administrator for Mobile Loaves & Fishes, a non-profit organization that addresses the issue of homelessness in the U.S. Quraishi is a writer, blogger, interfaith activist and technology professional living in Austin, Texas, and...
Noreen Rahman
Noreen Rahman is the Prevention Programs coordinator at Girls Incorporated of Orange County, a non-profit dedicated to "Inspiring All Girls to be Strong, Smart and Bold" through programming on topics such as body image, teen pregnancy prevention, career readiness, fitness...
Reem Salahi
Reem Salahi is a board member of the Muslim Legal Fund of America, which finances the legal representation of cases that impact the civil rights and liberties of Muslims in America. Salahi is an attorney at Hadsell Stormer Keeny Richardson...
Naba Sharif
Naba Sharif is a member of the board of directors of the Muslim Public Affairs Council - New York. Dr. Sharif has consistently merged her passions for humanitarian and outreach work, particularly related to underprivileged communities, international concerns and interfaith...
Arshia Wajid
Arshia Wajid established the American Muslim Health Professionals (AMHP) in 2004 to bring together professionals working in various sectors within healthcare to tackle issues of public health within their communities. She served as AMHP’s president for five years, and continues...
Dawud Walid
Dawud Walid is currently the executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI), a chapter of America’s largest advocacy and civil liberties organization for Muslims. Walid also serves as an advisory board member of the...
Shireen Zaman
Shireen Zaman is the executive director of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), where she has lead the organization’s efforts to establish a presence in Washington, D.C. and is focused on expanding the its impact and visibility in...