Aminah Abdullah
Community Services Manager
Aminah has been serving MCC since 2017. She heads the Zakat/charity outreach, food pantry, human resources, and finance departments. She develops new methods to serve the community’s needs better.
Mirwies Hasan Samimi
Facility Caretaker
Mirwies has been serving the MCC East Bay community since 2018. He manages facility repairs, sets up and tears down and he provides support services for public and private events, interfaces with vendors and maintains vendor contracts, supervises and delegates responsibilities to facility volunteers, and manages the overall cleanliness of the MCC facility as well as MCC’s offsite food pantry warehouse.
Liz Duran
Convert Care Coordinator
Lizette is a Bay Area native. The Bay Area is also her Islamic birthplace. In 2015, she took her Shahada (Declaration of Faith) at the Lighthouse Mosque in Oakland. Since then, she has been an active part of the East Bay Muslim community. She loves connecting with sisters and forming community connections. She has served the MCC revert community since 2022.
Munir Safi
Community Director
Munir Safi cut his teeth as a breaking newspaper reporter for several years in his home state of Missouri before finding a second career in Islamic nonprofit management after he moved to California. He has served the MCC East Bay community since 2016. He oversees the facility, programming, events, classes, congregation support, website, marketing, communications, A/V and media, information technology, social media, interfaith, community, prison outreach, and providing support services to MCC’s varied social services.
Nadia Ann
Case Manager
Nadia has been serving the MCC community since 2020 as a volunteer. She joined the organization in 2024. Nadia focuses on assisting families who apply for help connected to social and support services. Her community interests are homelessness, unemployment, domestic violence, and housing insecurity.
Sehyr Elahi
Finance/Charity Programs Administrator
Sehyr joined the organization in 2023. Sehyr assists local families applying for Zakat assistance and car program, facilitates financial administration, and administers enrollment in MCC’s after-school Quran, Hifz, and Arabic classes