Writer | Poet | Motivational Speaker
Criminal Justice Reform Advocate
Member of the Exonerated Five
Congresswoman | D-Michigan’s 13th District
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist | Acclaimed Filmmaker & Immigration Advocate
SEEMA AHMAD
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Deputy Federal Public Defender
Naser Alazari
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Writer, Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19
QASIM A. BASIR
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Writer / Producer / Director, A Boy, A Girl, A Dream
JUSTIN CONNOLLY
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Southern California Senior Director, Human Rights Watch
ZEHRA FAZAL
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Voice Actor, Call of Duty, Young Justice
DR. MUQTEDAR KHAN
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Author, Islam and Good Governance
FAWZIA MIRZA
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Writer / Actor / Producer, The Red Line, Signature Move, Plus
SUE OBEIDI
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Director, MPAC Hollywood Bureau
AYSER SALMAN
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Author / Editor / Screenwriter, The Wrong End of the Table
DR. JULIE SIERRA
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Internal Medicine Physician, Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSD