Nura Maznavi, Ayesha Mattu
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Ayesha A. Mattu is a writer, photographer, philanthropy consultant, and board member of the Muslim Women’s Fund. Ms. Mattu is a founding board member for the Muslim Women’s Fund, the first fund solely focused on serving 600 million Muslim women worldwide. She also serves on the board of the Women’s Funding Network (WFN), a coalition of 130 women’s organizations around the world. Ms. Mattu has worked in Pakistan at Sahil, where she helped to address the controversial issue of child sexual abuse in a Muslim country. She then moved to Boston where she joined Grassroots International in supporting social justice organizations in six countries. She then worked at the Global Fund for Women in San Francisco, raising significant funds to disburse to women’s organizations in 167 countries. She also served on the International Development Exchange (IDEX) board. Ms. Mattu has raised millions of foundation dollars for global human rights issues over the past 12 years. Through her work she supports issues including women’s human rights, reproductive health, economic security, and access to education. Her work focuses on marginalized, minority, and indigenous women in the Global South. She has an award-winning blog, and is the co-editor for the upcoming Muslim-American women’s anthology Love, Insh’Allah. Ayesha is an alumna of Voices of Our Nations writers’ workshop and a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. |
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Nura Maznavi is a civil rights attorney, writer, and Fulbright scholar and the co-editor of the non-fiction anthology Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women (Soft Skull Press, 2012). Nura has worked with the national legal advocacy organization, Muslim Advocates, where she led its Program to End Racial and Religious Profiling. At Muslim Advocates Nura focused on federal policies that target the American Muslim community, including FBI surveillance and border profiling. Prior to joining Muslim Advocates, Nura was an associate with the law firm Rosen, Bien & Galvan in San Francisco, litigating prisoner rights class actions on behalf of California state prisoners. Nura was also a staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a Fulbright Scholar in Sri Lanka, where she worked with local and international non-governmental organizations on issues effecting Sri Lankan migrant workers. Nura received her BA in Politics from Pomona College and her JD from The George Washington University School of Law.
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