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Shireen Zaman is the Executive Director at ISPU, where she is focused on expanding the organization’s impact and visibility in the policy community and on the development of new partnerships. Ms. Zaman comes to ISPU from Vital Voices Global Partnership, a leading women’s leadership organization, where she was the Director for the Middle East and North Africa. She has worked with the Office of Iraq Political Affairs at the U.S. Department of State where she focused on political and civil society development. Ms. Zaman completed her M.A. at the School of International Service at American University, where she focused on public diplomacy and U.S. relations with the Muslim world.
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Farid Senzai is Director of Research at ISPU and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Santa Clara University. Dr. Senzai was previously a research associate at the Brookings Institution, where he studied U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, and a research analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he worked on the Muslim Politics project. He served as a consultant for Oxford Analytica and the World Bank. Dr. Senzai is currently on the advisory board of The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life where he has contributed to several national and global surveys on Muslim attitudes. His recent co-authored book is Educating the Muslims of America (Oxford University Press, 2009). Dr. Senzai received a M.A. in international affairs from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in politics and international relations from Oxford University.
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Zareena Grewal is Director of CSAM and Assistant Professor in the departments of American Studies and Religious Studies and the Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration at Yale University. Before coming to Yale, she was a visiting lecturer at Vassar College in the department of anthropology. Dr. Grewal is the author of numerous articles and chapters on the intersections of race and religion in American Muslim communities and her book Destination Tradition: American Islam and the Crisis of Authority (forthcoming, New York University Press) explores the global religious networks that connect U.S. mosques to the intellectual centers of the Middle East. Dr.Grewal was awarded the Fulbright Fellowship in Egypt (2002-3) and received the Fulbright's prestigious Islamic Civilization Grant. She is also a documentary filmmaker, a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, and she was featured in the 2010 biographical collection Who's Who in America. Dr. Grewal received her doctorate from the interdisciplinary Program in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan.
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Hamada Hamid is the Director for the Center for Global Health at ISPU. He is also a Clinical Instructor in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry at Yale University. Dr. Hamid completed a dual residency in neurology and psychiatry and a Masters in Global Public Health at New York University, followed by a clinical research fellowship in epilepsy at Yale University. Dr. Hamid has published several articles and book chapters on neuropsychiatric illness, mental health policy in the Middle East, and the role of culture in mental illness across a diverse spectrum of Muslim populations. He is also the founding and current managing editor of the Journal of Muslim Mental Health. Dr. Hamid has served on the boards of Tamkeen, an Arab American social service agency, Muslim Mental Health, Inc., Muslim Family Services, and he is an affiliated faculty member for the Council of Middle East Studies at Yale University. Dr. Hamid was a Fulbright Fellow in Jordan (2002-3) and his essay "Developing Iraq's National Mental Health Policy" was awarded NYU's Outstanding Paper in Global Public Health Award. Dr Hamid received his medical degree from the School of Medicine at Michigan State University.
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Shabnam Khan is the Program Manager for the Development Unit at ISPU. She is also the founder and President of FocalPointe Solutions, a Michigan-based company that specializes in business development and process improvement for non-profit organizations. Ms. Khan was previously a project manager for ABN AMRO Bank. Ms. Khan is a founding member of IMPACT: Muslims Making a Difference, SEED Foundation, and is the Social Networking Chairperson for the Young Professionals of Rochester. Ms. Khan received a M. A. in English from Middle Tennessee State University.
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Abdullateef Muhiuddin serves as ISPU's Associate Development Officer, working on donor relations, researching grants, and event management. Mr. Muhiuddin previously worked with the University of Michigan’s Office of University Development and the Institutional Advancement office in Alumni Relations. He is a Board member of the Michigan Muslim Democratic Caucus and serves as a precinct delegate and convention representative. Mr. Muhiuddin graduated from the University of Michigan-Dearborn where he earned degrees in History and Psychology.
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Aamina Ahmed provides administrative support to ISPU and is also involved with various non profits in the metro Detroit area. She is currently on the Board of Plymouth Canton Citizens for Diversity and Inclusion and a member of the Canton Response to Hate Crime Coalition. Ms. Ahmed was the recipient of a prestigious Poynter Institute Fellowship as part of a model national project on multicultural communication. She has completed graduate work in Molecular Evolution and Genetics.
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Siwar Bizri is Research Manager at ISPU where she oversees the research process, tracks emerging issues and ensures the timely publication of research products. She has several years experience in policy research and analysis on topics including international media, social media, and Middle Eastern societies and cultures. Her interdisciplinary background and passion for writing also contribute to her personal blog and freelance writing projects. She holds a Masters degree in Political Science from Virginia Tech.
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Nadia Ahmed is the Finance Director at ISPU. She had previously served as the Business Manager, Board Treasurer, and Finance Committee Chair for Friends School in Detroit, a nonprofit private elementary school. Before that, Mrs. Ahmed had worked for over 11 years in the public accounting field as an international tax consultant for Ernst & Young in Detroit and Arthur Anderson in Chicago and New York. She has a Bachelors degree in Accounting from DePaul University and just recently completed a Masters degree in Non-Profit Management.
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Teeb Al-Samarrai is ISPU's Assistant Director of the Center for Global Health and a medical epidemiologist with interests in refugee health, global health education, and the social and structural determinants of health domestically and abroad. Dr. Al-Samarrai trained in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital where she established a multidisciplinary clinic for newly arrived refugees. Between 2009– 2011 she served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. During her work with CDC, Dr. Al-Samarrai served in post-earthquake Haiti as the coordinator of a surveillance system monitoring for outbreaks among internally displaced persons. She has also trained and worked in Lebanon, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Uganda.
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Alyssa Johnson provides administrative support to ISPU. Alyssa graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Comparative Cultures & Politics and International Relations, where she spent semesters abroad at Koc University in Istanbul and Universite Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Prior to joining ISPU, Alyssa worked on the development team at Elder Law of Michigan, a legal services nonprofit in Lansing, Michigan. She also spent time in Southern Africa working with grassroots organizations on issues related to human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
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Jonathan Hayden is Communications Manager at ISPU. Jonathan spent nearly 7 years running the office of Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies Ambassador Akbar Ahmed at American University's School of International Service. In his time with American University he oversaw several major research projects including one of the most comprehensive research projects on Islam in America, Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam. He handled all media and online communications for the office including a popular blog. He has published articles in newspapers and journals such as The Omaha World Herald, The Tennessean and Islam and Modern Societies: A Social Science Journal. He holds a degree in Political Science and History from the University of Alabama.
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Dr. Karam Dana joined ISPU in January 2012 as the Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of American Muslims (CSAM). He is an Associate at the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University. Dr. Dana received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2009, after which he held a one-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, and was a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His Middle East-related research explores the intersection between economics and politics: the ways in which economic indicators have affected political (in)stability in the Arab Middle East, and the role of technology in shaping various social structures in the developing world (with a focus on the Arab world). Dr. Dana is the co-principal investigator of the Muslim American Public Opinion Survey (MAPOS), a research project that won the American Political Science Association's Best Paper Award for 2008.
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