From voter registration and mobilization, policy advocacy, and supporting candidates who champion Muslim interests, be part of the national effort to educate and mobilize Muslim American voters.
10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. | Saturday, August 16 | MCC Conference Room | Join us in person or watch virtually at mcceastbay.org/live
Sponsored by CAIR Action & MCC East Bay.
Questions? events@mcceastbay.org
Linda Sarsour is an author, award-winning racial justice and civil rights activist, seasoned community organizer, and mother of three. Ambitious, outspoken, and independent, Linda shatters stereotypes of Muslim women while also treasuring her religious and ethnic heritage. She is a Palestinian Muslim American and a self-proclaimed “pure New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn!”
She is the former Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York and co-founder of the first Muslim online organizing platform, MPOWER Change. Linda has been at the forefront of major civil rights campaigns, including calling for an end to unwarranted surveillance of New York’s Muslim communities and ending police policies like stop and frisk. In the wake of the police murder of Mike Brown, she co-founded Muslims for Ferguson to build solidarity amongst American Muslim communities and encourage work against police brutality. She is a member of the Justice League NYC, a leading NYC force of activists, formerly incarcerated individuals, and artists working to reform the New York Police Department and the criminal justice system. Linda was the National Co-Chair of the 2017 Women’s March on Washington, dubbed the largest single-day protest in US history. She served on the executive board of Women’s March, Inc., where she focused on fundraising and direct action planning.