14) Dalia Mogahed
After Trump’s election, the American Muslim community sought to remobilize, to which Dalia Mogahed, scholar and speaker, was no exception. The Research Director of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) worked tirelessly to combat the rampant Islamophobia that took ahold of the country in 2017. She appeared on NPR and launched “Islamophobia: A Threat to All,” a project that seeks to unearth the impact of Islamophobia and offer solutions through research.
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