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Diversity in Action: Mobilizing Community, Youth, and Empowering Partnership

Session Description:

This interactive session features diverse presenters confronting the challenge of mobilizing traumatized communities impacted by the global crisis of mass displacement, and specifically empowering youth. Hena Zuberi describes how her extensive media work with Muslim Network TV and Muslim Matters supports human rights advocacy for persecuted communities, and the role that leadership training plays in preparing the Next Generation. Refugee youth leader Imran Mohammed Fazal Hoque describes his organizing efforts among refugee youth in Chicago. Executive Director for Religions for Peace USA Taranjit Singh Butalia considers the delicate balance between dialogue and social justice advocacy. Reflecting on his partnership building both in the United Nations and the grassroots community space, facilitator Adem Carroll encourages group discussion of best practices.

  • Date
    August 14, 2023
  • Time
    2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
  • Location
    E255