Linda Sarsour
Linda Sarsour (she/her) is an award-winning racial justice and civil rights activist, community organizer, every Islamophobe's worst nightmare and mother of three, and is the co-founder and executive director of the first Muslim online organizing platform, MPower Change. She is a Palestinian-Muslim-American born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and is the former Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York. Linda was one of the national co-chairs of the largest single day protest in US history, the Women’s March on Washington. She has been named amongst 500 of the most influential Muslims in the world. She has won numerous awards including Champion of Change from the Obama Administration. She was recognized as one of Fortune’s 50 Greatest Leaders and featured as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2017. Linda is a 2019 Roddenberry Fellow, and in 2020 released her highly anticipated book “We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love & Resistance.” She is a frequent media commentator on issues impacting Muslim communities, Middle East affairs and criminal justice reform and most recognized for her transformative intersectional organizing work and movement building.