Ilise Benshushan Cohen
Ilise Benshushan Cohen is a Sephardic Jewish Atlantan, with family roots from the Ottoman Empire and from Cuba and identifies as Sephardi/Mizrahi. Ilise is a scholar-activist on Israel/Palestine and has her Ph.D. in Social/Cultural [Postcolonial] Anthropology focused on Israeli Mizrahi Jewish experiences of state violence and resilience in 2006/2007 their intersections with Palestinian experiences. Ilise is…
Read MoreChristiane Assefa
Christiane Assefa is an organizer, researcher, writer, and student based in San Diego, CA. As an organizer, Assefa’s work centralizes on power research trainings and the intersections of police brutality, gender, and bodily autonomy. Assefa is a PhD student of Ethnic Studies at UCSD where she writes about the way Western Militarism and foreign policy has…
Read MoreAyesha 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…
Read MoreAhmad Abuznaid
Ahmad Abuznaid is the Executive Director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights. Prior to joining USCPR, Ahmad co-founded the Florida-based Dream Defenders after the killing of Trayvon Martin, serving as Legal & Policy Director and COO during his time there. Ahmad went on to lead the National Network for Arab American Communities as the…
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