Scholar. Activist. Educator. Mentor.

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My Freedom is to be what they don’t want me to be.

- Mahmoud Darwish

I am an oral historian, ethnographer, and cultural critic - a cross-disciplinary scholar, community organizer and educator who has roots in Palestine and the Bay Area. As a person of exile and a struggler for liberation, I seek and find home and movement in my people wherever I goes.

Scholar

I am a critical scholar of race, feminisms, and liberation, grounded in my orientation toward social justice and accountability to my community. I research 20th and 21st century third world social movements on a quest to document, define and reimagine revolution, decolonization, and liberation.

Activist

As an organizer, I am committed to people-centered, collectively determined community organizing praxis in the struggle for justice and liberation in my various communities and in joint struggle. Through this, I ground my pedagogical praxis in and out of the classroom.

Educator & Mentor

For over a decade, I have spent countless hours both in and outside of the classroom creating programming, developing curricula, facilitating workshops, and mentoring youth and student organizations and individuals in institutional and popular education forums.

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

— Frantz Fanon

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Research

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and a faculty affiliate of the Center for the Middle East & North Africa at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Check out what I am currently working on.

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Writing

I have several publications with more forthcoming, including in American Quarterly, Social Identities, Critical Ethnic Studies, Amerasia, Journal for Palestine Studies, and Radical History Review. Check out my writing and publications.

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love and protect one another. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

— Assata Shakur

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Teaching

Teaching and mentorship happen in and beyond the classroom. Check out my courses and inquire about other educational work.

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Speaking

I have spoken at different campuses, conferences, community events, and media forums. Check out some of my presentations.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

— Arundhati Roy