POWERSHIFT — A SEAT AT THE DINNER TABLE NATALIA BONILLA & REBECCA IRBY with guest NEDA SHAHEEN | 1 April 2021 @ 6P EST
Neda M. Shaheen is a human rights attorney in Washington, D.C. At Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security & Conflict Transformation (“WCAPS”), Neda advocates to advance women of color in the fields of peace, security and conflict transformation, and manages all WCAPS projects and programs. Neda also Co-Chairs the WCAPS Southwest Asia and North Africa Working Group and the Young Ambassadors Program. Neda previously volunteered as the National Director of Arab American Engagement on the Biden for President Campaign, is a 2020 DNC President Fellow, and leads Team DC at Arab America.
Prior to WCAPS, Neda represented Arab and Muslim asylum seekers and refugees, political prisoners and other human rights defenders in discrimination and immigration cases at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, after her time at the United Nations Security Council in New York, where she conducted legal compliance of state security strategies. Neda is from Ohio and earned her Juris Doctor and Certificate in International & Comparative Law at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois, after graduating from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Art in English and a minor in Studio Art in Columbus, Ohio.
During law school, Neda was very active in Cheriff Bassiouni's International Human Rights Law Institute, where she conducted field research on the rule of law in Senegal and Kenya for reports to the UN Treaty Body Committees. She also served as a JD AmeriCorps and Pro Bono Assistant for the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR), supporting Somali and Sudanese torture survivors.
Stick around from 7 to 7:30 for dessert where we’ll be joined by the Arab American Foundation.
The Arab America Foundation (AAF) is a non-profit (501c3) educational and cultural organization established in 2019. The mission of AAF is to promote the Arab heritage and empower Arab Americans, educate Americans about the Arab identity, and to connect Arab Americans together (socially and professionally) and build coalitions with diverse organizations across the U.S.
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EAT WITH US: ZA'ATAR MAN'OUSHE (RECIPE BELOW)
