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ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS
  • Jadaliyya (Co-Founding Editor) 
  • Institute for Policy Studies (Board of Trustees)
  • Journal of Palestine Studies (Editorial Committee member) 
  • Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Board member) 
  • DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival (Co-Founding Board Member) 
  • Al-Shabaka (Board Member & Policy Advisor) 
  • IntLawGrrls (Contributor)
  • US Palestine Community Network (Founding member) 
  • Split this Rock (Board Member 2009-2011) 
  • Trans-Arab Research Institute (Board Member 2007-2010)
  • Legal Agenda (Consultant 2010-2012) 
  • National Lawyers Guild (member) 
  • Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee & Residency Rights (Legal Support Network) 
  • Speak Out (Speaker) 
  • She Source (Expert) 

NATIONAL CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
  •   National Tour for Ibda’a Dance Troupe, Dheishe Refugee Camp (1999) 
  •   Students for Justice in Palestine First National Conference on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (Berkeley, 2001) 
  •   US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, 5th Annual Conference (Detroit 2006) 
  •   Arab Women Arising for Justice (AMWAJ) (Chicago 2006) 
  •   US Popular Palestinian Conference Network (Founding member & organizer, Chicago 2008)
  •   Georgetown Annual Symposium (Organizing Board Member, 2009)
  •   US Social Forum on behalf of USPCN (National Planning Committee Rep, Detroit 2010) 
  •   USPCN Second Popular Conference (Steering Committee Member, October 2010)
  •   Russell Tribunal on Palestine- NY Session (Legal Committee Member, October 2012) 

INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER WORK & DELEGATIONS
  •   Taught English at Dheishe refugee camp in Palestine (Winter 1998)
  •   Cairo to Camps: 2-week drama/music/writing camp in al Badawi refugee camp in Tripoli, Lebanon (Summer 2002)
  •   Adalah-Arab Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights (Summer 2003)
  •   National Lawyers Guild Fact-Finding Delegation in Gaza (February 2009) 
  •   Badil-Zochrot delegation to the former Yugoslavia (October 2009)
  •   Law Offices of Nizar Saghieh, Beirut, Lebanon (February-July 2010) 
  •   Co-Led Interfaith Peace Builders Delegation to Palestine and Israel (May-June 2013)

CAMPAIGNS 
  • University-based Divestment Campaign (2001-Present) 
  • Caterpillar Divestment Campaign (2005-2007) 
  • Israeli Accountability Campaign (in conjunction with law suits against Dichter & Ya’alon) (2005-2007) 
  • Gaza Accountability Campaign (lobbying effort aimed at garnering an Arms Export Control Act investigation of the misuse of U.S. weapons by Israel in Gaza) (2009-2010)


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    • Bio
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    • Justice for Some
    • Teaching
    • Select Lectures & Webinars
    • Art
  • MEDIA
    • TELEVISION
    • Publications
    • Film & Multimedia Productions
  • ADVOCACY
    • Schedule
    • Pictures, Bio, Details
  • Jobs