Equality and Inclusion
Promotes core American values of equality and inclusion through local and national engagement across diverse communities.
Associated People
Board members, advisors, and key contributors
Board of Directors
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Mohammad A Suleman
President and Chair of Board
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Nabil Mallick
Treasurer and Board Member
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Zakaria Albarzinji
Board Member
Meet Our
Dr. Todd Green
Todd Green is the Director of Campus Partnerships at Interfaith America. He is also a Sponsored University Associate at the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He previously served as a religious studies professor at Luther College, where he taught courses on religion and politics, interfaith dialogue, Islam, and Islamophobia. He also directed the international studies program and served as the interim director of the college’s Center for Ethics and Public Engagement. In 2016-2017, he served as a Franklin Fellow at the U.S. Department of State, where he analyzed and assessed the impact of anti-Muslim prejudice in Europe on countering violent extremism initiatives, refugee and migrant policies, and human rights.Todd is the author of The Fear of Islam: An Introduction to Islamophobia in the West (2nd Edition– Fortress Press, 2019) and Presumed Guilty: Why We Shouldn’t Ask Muslims to Condemn Terrorism (Fortress Press, 2018). He is also the editor of Islam, Immigration, and Identity (MDPI, 2014) and has contributed articles to a variety of peer-reviewed publications, including his article “The Mainstreaming of Islamophobia in US Politics” in the edited volume Breaking Point: Global Islamophobia in the War on Terror (Manchester University Press, 2022).
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Homayra is a writer
Dr. Homayra ziad
Homayra is a writer, a dreamer, a scholar-activist, and a mother. She is trained as a generalist in classical and modern Islam, with a specialization in Sufism and Indo-Persian textual traditions, and her research explores the creation of religious selfhood and subjectivity and its relationship to language, as well as pre-modern and modern interpretation of the Qur’an. Since receiving her doctorate in Religious Studies from Yale University, she has been an educator in multiple contexts and a practitioner of community-engaged teaching and scholarship. At Trinity College, she served on the Community Learning Initiatives advisory committee and guided students in community-based learning in Hartford, CT. At Johns Hopkins, she directs the Program in Islamic Studies and is leading a Wabash grant on community-engaged pedagogy partnering with Dr. Shawntay Stocks at the Center for Social Concern. She also serves as Associate Editor of The Commons, an online monthly where artists, activists, and academics explore the intersection of religion, social justice, and public life. Homayra has twenty years of experience in interreligious education and programming and was founding co-chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Group.
Information compiled from IRS Form 990 and organizational materials.