{"id":309,"name":"Diana Fakhoury, Jesse Hagopian, Lena Jones, Emma Klein, Miriam, and Waf\u00e1 Safi","url":"","description":"Diana Fakhoury<\/strong> is a Palestinian multidisciplinary designer, entrepreneur, and mother of two. She was born in Kuwait, but due to the Gulf War became a child refugee when her family was unexpectedly displaced during a vacation in the U.S. She spent the rest of her childhood in Asheville, North Carolina. Diana received a Bachelors of Art and Design from North Carolina State University and recently completed a User-Centered Design program at the University of Washington. She has lived and worked in Ballard since 2009.\r\n\r\nJesse Hagopian\u2019s<\/strong> African ancestors endured the middle passage and enslavement on plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana. His Armenian ancestors were killed in the genocide of 1915 by the Turkish government. Jesse is an educator and the author of the forthcoming book, Teach Truth: The Attack on Critical Race Theory and the Struggle for Antiracist Education.<\/em> In 2011, Jesse participated in the Interfaith Peace Builder's first African Heritage delegation that brought 14 African Americans ages 28-70 years old to Israel and Palestine to meet with civil society organizations, human rights groups, and grassroots activists. Jesse\u2019s article, \u201cIsrael\u2019s War on Gaza Is Also a War on History<\/a>,\u201d was recently published in The Progressive.<\/em>\r\n\r\nLena Jones<\/strong> is an educator in the Seattle Public Schools who teaches both Black Studies and English Language Arts and serves on her school's Black Student Union and its Racial Equity Team.\r\n\r\nEmma Klein<\/strong> is a Jewish Seattle Public Schools educator and parent. Her ancestors fled the pogroms in Eastern Europe and immigrated to New York shortly before the Holocaust. Emma was raised in a secular Ashkenazi Jewish community in Boston. She's been a member of Jewish Voices for Peace for almost two decades and has traveled to the West Bank and East Jerusalem twice with U.S. Jews for A Just Peace Health and Human Rights delegations.\r\n\r\nEmma organized with other Seattle Education Association rank-and-file members to pass a resolution endorsing the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions call in 2021<\/a>, which passed the representative assembly with a 90% vote in favor.\r\n\r\nMiriam<\/strong> is a diasporic Palestinian living and organizing at the intersections of gender justice and anti-colonialism in so-called Seattle. Miriam is a core organizer with multiple grassroots Palestinian liberation organizations, who continues to fight for a liberated Palestine, so we can all one day return to our homeland.\r\n\r\nWaf\u00e1 Safi<\/strong> is a first generation Palestinian-American. She has been in education for over 23 years. She is currently a middle school science teacher and served as an equity coach in her district. She is the co-chair for the Racial Affairs Committee in her State Affiliate, Indiana State Teachers Association and is the Vice-President of Secondary Education in her local, Hamilton Southeastern Education Association. She has served on various Social and Racial Justice committees at the National Education Association (NEA) and is currently the Secretary for the NEA Arab American Caucus. She\u2019s made it her life\u2019s work to amplify the voices of students and educators of color and to bring awareness to the issues that affect them.","link":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/author\/blm_palestine_panel\/","slug":"blm_palestine_panel","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/59fc893affdb4bb1c226d9f6da8fc3bfabcedd734c8ca447e3500b7b5a862c57?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/59fc893affdb4bb1c226d9f6da8fc3bfabcedd734c8ca447e3500b7b5a862c57?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/59fc893affdb4bb1c226d9f6da8fc3bfabcedd734c8ca447e3500b7b5a862c57?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}