Many in our community are actively learning and listening to what’s happening in Palestine, but how many of u know what’s also happening in Sudan? Join us this Sunday to hear from this amanzing panel, tl learn more about what’s happening in Sudan, what are the difference and similarities to what is happening in Palestine, and what can be done on our end, and how we can work towards collective end to the suffering in both places.
Bayadir Mohamed-Osman is a Sudanese American based in the DMV. She is an author, poet, public health professional, and community activist. She completed her Masters in Public Health at John’s Hopkins University in 2023. Her poetry and research has been showcased throughout the USA.
Isma'il Kushkush is a journalist who has contributed to the New York Times, the Washington Post, New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta, Smithsonian, The Nation, , Guernica, and others. He was based in Khartoum, Sudan, for eight years, and was acting bureau chief for The New York Times in East Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya. He received a bachelors of arts degree in history and international relations from the University of California, Davis, with a focus on Africa and the Middle East and a master of arts degree in journalism from Columbia Journalism School in New York with a focus on politics and global affairs. He was a Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and an Ida B. Wells Fellowship recipient with Type Investigations.
Iman is the Director of Advocacy and Organizing at the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR). She has spent the last decade community organizing across New York and Washington DC on issues ranging from immigration justice to mass incarceration. In 2021, she testified in front of the United Nations High Commissioner as part of a panel highlighting the impacts of police brutality on African Americans in the U.S. Iman is also a co-founder of Free the People Roc, a Rochester, NY-based organization that formed from the Black Lives Matter movement of 2020, following the murders of George Floyd and Daniel Prude.
Mimi is a local organizer in the Palestinian liberation movement in the DC, MD, VA region. She has been an organizer for over a decade, focused on mobilizing the diaspora in the west through political education and actions. She graduated with a bachelors in clinical psychology, focused on the cultural aspects of mental health and the impact of colonialism on mental illness and treatment in the western world.