Rochelle Watson

Rochelle Watson is National Organizer for Friends of Sabeel – North America. She has 15 years of experience as a community organizer for grassroots organizations including the Rachel Corrie Foundation, Art Forces and Garden Raised Bounty. She co-founded the Olympia Rafah Sister City Project after her friend, Rachel Corrie, was killed by the Israeli military in…

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Garik Ruiz

Garik Ruiz is the former North America Liaison for the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society. Garik has worked with local and national partners throughout North America to support BDS campaigns and be a direct link for local organizers back to the BNC leadership in Palestine. Garik spent six months…

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Noam Perry

Noam Perry is the associate of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Economic Activism Program, which produces Investigate, an online investment screening tool and database of companies involved in human rights violations, including the Israeli occupation. Before that he taught in the Human Rights Program at San José State University, where he was faculty advisor of…

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Andrew Kadi

Andrew Kadi is an organizer who formerly sat on the Steering Committee of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights. His writing has been published in The Guardian, Left Turn Magazine, Mondoweiss, and The Electronic Intifada. Location: Washington, DC Areas of Expertise: BDS; Palestine/Israel 101; Palestinian citizens of Israel; skills workshops (campaigning, organizing, social media, press release writing, etc.) Click here to email.

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Dalit Baum

Dalit Baum is the director of Economic Activism for the American Friends Service Committee. She is a feminist BDS teacher and activist, and the co-founder of the Coalition of Women for Peace in Israel and of Who Profits from the Occupation. She has accompanied dozens of campaigns for Palestinian liberation around the world and created the Investigate resource…

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Anna Baltzer

Anna Baltzer is an award-winning author and organizer for Palestinian rights. She is the former Director of Organizing and Advocacy at the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights with a focus on boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) and has given hundreds of presentations, trainings, and interviews across the US and on five continents. She is author of Witness…

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Rae Abileah

Rae Abileah is a social change strategist, writer, educator, and advocate for collective liberation and economic justice. As the co-director and national organizer of CODEPINK Women for Peace for nearly a decade, she ignited campaigns to counter wars and militarism, and amplify peace-building alternatives. She has led delegations to Palestine, coordinated BDS campaigns, and published articles…

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Ayesha Khan, Ph.D.

Ayesha Khan, Ph.D., is a Clinical Microbiologist, Infectious Diseases scientist, grassroots organizer, writer, artist and abolitionist educator bridging science and medicine with social justice and geopolitics. Dr. Khan served on the steering committees of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (2020-2022) and National Students for Justice in Palestine (2015-2020). She also served as a lead organizer with…

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