Global Feminist Resistance event
In light of Israeli Apartheid Week, Women's History Month, and Apartheid Divest at Hunter College, join us to discuss the role of women worldwide in their struggles for freedom and liberation from different forms of oppression such as imperialism, colonialism, sexism and patriarchy.
We invited: Aber Kawas, Sasha Murphy, Sabra Shafiq, Loubna Mrie and Denise Romero
We invited: Aber Kawas, Sasha Murphy, Sabra Shafiq, Loubna Mrie and Denise Romero
Aber Kawas graduated in 2014 from The City College of New York's International Studies Program with a concentration Latin American Studies. Aber has interned at CAIR New York, Urban Justice Center's Street Vendor Project and is now the Youth Lead Organizer at the Arab American Association of New York where she previously worked as a Fellow in 2012 registering over 800 voters with the Verazzano Bridge Coalition. She has worked with several organizations in the city around issues such as immigration, police surveillance, racial profiling, ect. and hopes to work to improve the conditions of immigrants in the New York area by providing programs and services to both them and their children.
Sasha Murphy is a socialist who is a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. As an activist she has fought in an array of struggles including immigrant rights, LGBTQ liberation, BLM and is a proud fighter in the anti immperialist Palestinian liberation struggle in the U.S. She is a former CUNY student of Lehman College and has continued to organize with poor and working peole across the city for nearly a decade.
Sabra Shafiq is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, a 7-Sister Ivy, which represents 1 of the 7 historically women-only colleges in the U.S. This is where Sabra honed her radical thinking and a lifelong commitment to social justice evolved. With 20 years passing since she visited relatives in her hometown of Srinagar, Kashmir- she decided to move abroad after college and work with international development programs based in conflict zones, including India-administered Kashmir. There, she worked with the Kashmir Education Initiative to improve and expand their mentorship and educational scholarship opportunities across the Valley. After conducting a leadership capacity building initiative with over 350 Kashmiri youth, Sabra returned to the US where she helped develop an global initiative with Women’s Campaign International to address and problem-solve on political, economic, and social challenges that women were experiencing across Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Sabra received her MPA from Columbia University and is now a senior consultant, advising healthcare stakeholders on how to leverage technology and digital solutions to improve health outcomes. She is passionate about the intersection of healthcare, technology, and public policy specifically when it comes to vulnerable, disenfranchised communities.
Loubna Mrie is a Syrian activist who participated in the initial stages of the revolution. She later became a photojournalist with Reuters based in Aleppo, where she covered the ongoing conflict in the Idlib, Aleppo, Latakia, and Hama governorates. Originally from the Syrian coastal city of Jableh, she is currently based in New York City where she is completing an MA at NYU.
Her work has been published in the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New Republic, among other publications.
Denise Romero is an undocumented activist from Mexico now residing in Queens. She is a student at CUNY and a member of the International Socialist Organization. Through collaborative campaigns, she has organized against deportations and police brutality and for reproductive and labor rights.
Sasha Murphy is a socialist who is a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. As an activist she has fought in an array of struggles including immigrant rights, LGBTQ liberation, BLM and is a proud fighter in the anti immperialist Palestinian liberation struggle in the U.S. She is a former CUNY student of Lehman College and has continued to organize with poor and working peole across the city for nearly a decade.
Sabra Shafiq is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, a 7-Sister Ivy, which represents 1 of the 7 historically women-only colleges in the U.S. This is where Sabra honed her radical thinking and a lifelong commitment to social justice evolved. With 20 years passing since she visited relatives in her hometown of Srinagar, Kashmir- she decided to move abroad after college and work with international development programs based in conflict zones, including India-administered Kashmir. There, she worked with the Kashmir Education Initiative to improve and expand their mentorship and educational scholarship opportunities across the Valley. After conducting a leadership capacity building initiative with over 350 Kashmiri youth, Sabra returned to the US where she helped develop an global initiative with Women’s Campaign International to address and problem-solve on political, economic, and social challenges that women were experiencing across Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Sabra received her MPA from Columbia University and is now a senior consultant, advising healthcare stakeholders on how to leverage technology and digital solutions to improve health outcomes. She is passionate about the intersection of healthcare, technology, and public policy specifically when it comes to vulnerable, disenfranchised communities.
Loubna Mrie is a Syrian activist who participated in the initial stages of the revolution. She later became a photojournalist with Reuters based in Aleppo, where she covered the ongoing conflict in the Idlib, Aleppo, Latakia, and Hama governorates. Originally from the Syrian coastal city of Jableh, she is currently based in New York City where she is completing an MA at NYU.
Her work has been published in the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New Republic, among other publications.
Denise Romero is an undocumented activist from Mexico now residing in Queens. She is a student at CUNY and a member of the International Socialist Organization. Through collaborative campaigns, she has organized against deportations and police brutality and for reproductive and labor rights.