December 3, 2016

Nazila Jamshidi is an Afghan gender specialist and human/women’s rights activist. Since 2005 she has been assisting various governmental and non- governmental organizations such as Western Municipalities, the Department of Agriculture, Herat’s female prison, the Afghan Red Crescent Society, the UN and various NGOs to include a gender focus as part of their policies, strategies […]

Raquel Evita Saraswati is an American Muslim activist who focuses primarily on issues related to the status of women and girls in Muslim-majority societies and communities. She works to eradicate honor and gender-based violence (including female genital mutilation), end forced and child marriages, and protect the rights of ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities. Raquel has published in various

Maiden Syria’s co-founder, Maha Al-Barazi, volunteered for three weeks during the summer of 2015 teaching Syrian refugee kids in Istanbul, Turkey. During her trip, she met a woman named Um Mohammad, a Syrian refugee. Like many other women, she made scarves for a living along with her children. These women worked for a wage of 4