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Having experienced discrimination ourselves, we envision a more equitable community where we can center BIPOC, Immigrant/Refugee, Women and Femme’s lived experiences and leadership. Dismantling White Supremacist Patriarchy is at the root of our work and our advocacy aims to dismantle the misogyny that goes along with it. Advocacy, Bystander Training , Anti-Misogyny Training, Dismantling Anti-Blackness within our Borderlands, are just a few of our trainings available https://www.borderlandsequity.org/report-an-incident daily 0.75 2021-03-03 https://www.borderlandsequity.org/home daily 0.75 2021-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603d71a2f3a9731624cfc6e8/1614787107999-K3PCK5C96XQ7F0JOVUU9/IMG_5505.JPG Home - Who We Are. Borderlands for Equity is a pro bono civil rights 501(c)(3) nonprofit that serves those that have been discriminated against on the basis of ethnicity, gender orientation, race, religion within our borderlands region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603d71a2f3a9731624cfc6e8/1614787542788-Y98CO0NPEPKFNR0OGS5M/IMG_7070.JPG Home - Support for Our Community. Your valuable contribution enables us to advocate for and provide legal assistance to our most marginalized and vulnerable community members who have no other place to turn. Becoming a recurring donor will allow our organization to grow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603d71a2f3a9731624cfc6e8/1614788138597-IJ0B5STYG4D97N2132FH/IMG_7071.JPG Home - Report an Incident. If you believe you have been discriminated against on the basis of gender, race, religion, and/or ethnicity please fill out our Incident Intake Form and we will have someone from our team get back to you soon. https://www.borderlandsequity.org/donate daily 0.75 2022-07-07 https://www.borderlandsequity.org/youth-board-members daily 0.75 2021-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603d71a2f3a9731624cfc6e8/1614702756209-SP0KIKDYY2FYM2CMB5SX/Yasmeen-Obeid.jpg Youth Advisory Board Members - Yasmeen Obeid Yasmeen Obeid is a Muslim-Palestinian Community Organizer, Advocate, child of immigrants, and a recent Ethnic Studies’ Honors graduate from the University of California, San Diego, where she completed a 64-pages-long thesis on how student and faculty advocates for Palestine and the Palestinian people are criminalized, radicalized, and marginalized on college campuses. She was recently elected as a delegate for the 71st Assembly District in California. She currently serves as an Advisory Board member with Borderlands for Equity, as the Advocacy & Campaigns Coordinator for the Arab Resource Center in El Cajon, Majdal Center, and as the Community Partnerships Chair with the Feminist Front. She also recently accepted the role of Youth Organizer at Mid-City Community Advocacy Network, where she will mobilize and organize City Heights residents and youth to build political and community power. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603d71a2f3a9731624cfc6e8/1614703054906-ONB8DVED4KSJ50YROA6H/Khadijah-Abdulmateen.jpg Youth Advisory Board Members - Khadijah Abdulmateen Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603d71a2f3a9731624cfc6e8/1614703403503-S50GOALH2VE34PWDF2CD/Ameer-Chaudry.jpg Youth Advisory Board Members - Ameer Chaudry Ameer Chaudry is an undergraduate student at University of California San Diego studying Clinical Psychology and Ethnic Studies. Having grown up Muslim in the United States during the War on Terror, Ameer always had a very politicized existence that forced him to be an active member of his communities. This early exposure of alienating rhetoric sparked a disposition to question the status quo and understand disenfranchised perspectives through immersion in those respective communities. Since then, Ameer has been involved in many grassroots organizations and worked for countless communities to push for equity for all. Recently he has worked for a student initiated, governed, and run resource center on the UCSD campus, working for educational equity in the San Diego area, namely with East county Muslim refugees. Looking to the future, Ameer hopes to work on mental health initiatives for said community and plans on integrating social justice, public health, and clinical psychology to serve the most severely marginalized people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603d71a2f3a9731624cfc6e8/1614703515759-EWYKJIOTZVO2XG6FTU7H/Sarah-Farouq.jpg Youth Advisory Board Members - Sarah Farouq Sarah Farouq background’s specializes in community organizing and advocacy in her various capacities in local and statewide organizations. As a Muslim immigrant and an Iraqi refugee, Sarah’s personal experiences have shaped her passions in her community work and activism. She has been engaged in fighting state-sanctioned violence, specifically advocating against the surveillance, policing, and exclusion of Black and brown communities. In her previous capacities as a community organizer at local and national nonprofits, she has helped organize campaigns in issue areas, such as: immigration justice (through advocacy to close detention centers), criminal injustice (mass incarceration and gang documentation), and youth justice (addressing higher education and surveillance on students). Also a recent political science graduate of UC Berkeley, Sarah plans to eventually earn her Juris Doctor and continue to advocate for marginalized communities impacted by systemic injustice from a legal capacity and uplift their issues on a policy level. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603d71a2f3a9731624cfc6e8/1614703997788-4K4BB0L8VD3Z8ZGSAJHA/Suaad-Nour.jpg Youth Advisory Board Members - Suaad Nour Suaad Nour is a first generation Muslim Somali-American from San Diego. She currently attends UC Berkeley and is pursuing a simultaneous degree in Business Administration and Legal Studies. There, Suaad serves as a student body representative for the UC Berkeley Housing Security Fee Grant Oversight Committee and as an intern for Berkeley’s Racism and Criminal Justice Group where she reports on the cities’ transition to the new Police Accountability Board. She is also an Experience Berkeley High School Program Coordinator, in which she manages and supports a caseload of twelve low-income Black students within their transition to higher education. Suaad intends to pursue a law degree post-undergrad in order to continue her social justice and advocacy efforts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603d71a2f3a9731624cfc6e8/1614704046875-4XDCNHM9Y8HVK089Y4OK/Luqmaan-Bokhary.jpg Youth Advisory Board Members - Luqmaan Bokhary Luqmaan Bokhary is a Pakistani Muslim organizer from San Diego, CA. He is finishing his Bachelor's degree in Public Policy and South Asian Studies at Brown University. He is particularly interested in issues of racial justice, immigrant/refugee rights, and creating educational resources and opportunities for the communities he is a part of. In San Diego, he has served as the Advocacy and Legal Fellow at Borderlands for Equity, where he organized around human rights and racial justice. He has also contributed to Muslim civic engagement in San Diego County by working on connecting Muslim youth with progressive campaigns, voter registration, and voter education. In addition, he was a part of the Muslim Public Affairs Council’s Congressional Leadership Development Program, through which he interned at the United States Senate and was awarded the Padi Fellowship to work at a refugee education NGO in Indonesia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603d71a2f3a9731624cfc6e8/1616094271589-KC1B8VXVMK9ZWL0KPLVN/FullSizeRender+%281%29.jpg Youth Advisory Board Members - Ali-Reza Torabi My name is Ali-Reza Torabi. I moved to the United States in 1995 from Iran. I am a first generation Iranian immigrant who has navigated living in this country, undocumented and unafraid. Though this country did not give birth to me, it has helped raise me. And with help from my family and my immigrant community, I have utilized my experiences to pave my path as a future physician. I am a medical student at Loyola Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago. I am working to build my platform so that I can continue to advocate with even more force, commitment and passion. I want to nothing more than to become the type of physician my community needs; the type of physcian I wish I had during my time as an undocumented youth in this country. At the core of what I am striving for as not only a physician, but also as a human being, is fighting for the dignity, respect and rights of all those continually oppressed. That is why I am proud to be part of such a powerful organization like Borderlands for Equity, as we work to dismantle misogyny, white supremacy and bigotry in our borderlands and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603d71a2f3a9731624cfc6e8/1616098721104-UQ4Z4W4QUV5UBSFP55WR/students-10.jpg Youth Advisory Board Members - Nedy Velazquez Nedy Velazquez is the North County Community Organizer for Justice Overcoming Boundaries, a non-profit interfaith organization in San Diego. Nedy immigrated to the United States as a child and is passionate about organizing for her immigrant community. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science with an emphasis in American Politics from the University of California San Diego (UCSD). As a college student, she worked as Policy Intern for UCSD's Undocumented Student Services Center and developed the Legislative Advocacy Program, a 2-quarter program that creates leaders through social and political advocacy, teaching students about the legislative process and fundamentals of lobbying. Nedy was the first Borderlands for Equity Advocacy Fellow last year amid the Black Lives Matter Movement. She cares deeply about intersectionality, intentionality, and building strong and meaningful relationships in her organizing work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603d71a2f3a9731624cfc6e8/1616099019295-1121JBVTMCZA8DILXYGV/students-7.jpg Youth Advisory Board Members - Dania Taki My name is Dania, and I’m a biology major and anthropology minor transferring from Miramar College. I am originally from Damascus, Syria, and I came to the United States 4 years ago from Saudi Arabia. I am passionate about social justice, public health, and activism. My commitment to social responsibility makes Borderlands for Equity an ideal vehicle for putting my values into action. My experiences in the Middle East empower me to advocate both politically and when volunteering at the hospital, which constantly affirms and elevates my sense of purpose. In Borderlands for Equity, I hope to shed light on narratives lost in conflict and the voices of the oppressed. I hope to ultimately use my own voice to advocate for family and friends in the Middle East as a physician. https://www.borderlandsequity.org/board-members daily 0.75 2021-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603d71a2f3a9731624cfc6e8/1614704345684-GVF2L2GC7B8CWVKBRYX4/Maytha+Alhassen+TED+resident+pic.jpg Board Members - Maytha Alhassen Maytha Alhassen is a writer, journalist, professor and a pop culture collaborative senior fellow. As a social justice organizer, Alhasssen helped to start abolitionist organizations and collectives like the Social Justice Institute at Occidental College, Muslim Anti-racism Collective, Believers Bail Out, and Arabs for Black Lives. Alhassen received her Ph.d. and M.A. from USC in American Studies + Ethnicity, a B.A. in political science and Arabic + Islamic studies from UCLA in 2004 and a M.A in anthropology from Columbia University in 2008. While at Columbia, Alhassen conducted research for the University's Malcolm X project and facilitated arts-based workshops with incarcerated youth at Riker’s Island through Blackout Arts Collective. Alhassen has decades of experience in education, arts-based social justice organizing, media/journalism, global travel and healing practices (yoga, reiki, doula + meditation) and poetry writing and performance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603d71a2f3a9731624cfc6e8/1614704321422-8MQC5OWJ75BXJXV5ZU62/Nyisha.jpg Board Members - Nyisha Green-Washington Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603d71a2f3a9731624cfc6e8/1614814245324-0SOIFLNH7IJ9GRMN84RS/AidaPic.jpg Board Members - Aida Mackic Aida Mackic is a professional community organizer and political advocate. As a Hijabi Muslim woman, preserving individual freedom and choice for women in all aspects of their lives has always been at the center of her personal and political identity. In the Community Outreach Group, she has found the perfect fit for her skills, talents, and goals.Aida currently works as a National Program Director with C.O.G, leading a team of Campaign Managers working on Local, State and Federal level. Prior to joining Community Outreach Group, Aida served as the Lead Organizer in numerous political and issue-oriented campaigns, including recently as the Florida Community Organizing Director for the 2020 Elizabeth Warren for President campaign where she managed all aspects of the candidate’s Florida community organizing efforts. Before that campaign, Aida served as the Political Coordinator for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), FPSU, supporting the union’s living wage and Fight for $15 campaign, including spearheading a coalition of progressive organizations to push forward $15/hr. minimum wage petition initiative for the Florida 2020 ballot. Aida was born in a small village in Bosnia-Hercegovina and immigrated to the United States as a war refugee when she was eleven years old. Aida currently works and lives in Florida with her husband and their four children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603d71a2f3a9731624cfc6e8/1614814232017-PLA2OSASJYQ604PGEUBC/Shai+%281%29.jpg Board Members - Shaista Patel Shaista Patel is a Pakistani-Canadian Muslim scholar of critical Muslim Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She has received her PhD in social justice education and graduate certificate in women and gender studies from the University of Toronto. Trained as an interdisciplinary scholar, the questions she asks draw upon Indigenous, Black, Dalit and anti-caste, Muslim, and transnational feminist theories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603d71a2f3a9731624cfc6e8/1616094093117-SIZO7XLWRBURU2AIUT66/Monika+Langarica2.jpg Board Members - Monika Y. Langarica Monika Y. Langarica is the immigrants’ right staff attorney at the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties, where she engages in impact litigation, policy work, and other legal advocacy to defend and advance the rights of migrants & immigrants in our border region. Prior to joining the ACLU in 2018, Monika was a senior staff attorney with the ABA Immigration Justice Project of San Diego, where she led a team that primarily represented detained immigrants with mental health and capacity issues in deportation proceedings. A native of southeast San Diego and daughter of immigrants, Monika believes in fighting for a society in which all people are free to move and have access to resources they need to thrive. Monika sits on the board of the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association Scholarship Fund and is a co-founder of the Borderlands Get Free Bond Fund. She graduated from the University of Southern California and UC Berkeley School of Law and is licensed to practice law in California. https://www.borderlandsequity.org/the-founders daily 0.75 2021-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603d71a2f3a9731624cfc6e8/1616453304345-7Z7GOO8P011YDF6OBSO5/BC51B0F9-AE05-4306-A3E9-8A4F74E59BF0.jpeg The Founders - Mejgan Afshan The daughter of refugees from Afghanistan, Mejgan Afshan grew up in City Heights and La Mesa and is dedicated to equity for all our most impacted siblings. As Co Founder of Borderlands for Equity, a pro bono, civil rights, nonprofit serving our San Diego County borderlands region, I have made it my mission to center the voices and fight for our most marginalized community members to ensure equity at all levels of our community. I have almost 20 years of experience serving our community in various capacities from working for then City of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Madam Speaker of the House Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, San Diego County Democratic Party, International Rescue Committee, and CAIR San Diego. She believes in supporting our BIPOC, Immigrant/Refugee, Women and Femme’s in centering our voices through more progressive policy changes that are long over due. She is also founder of the East County Justice Coalition and the Borderlands Coalition. In November of 2020, she was elected Treasurer for the San Diego Refugee Forum, a coalition of 40+ of individuals, ethnic-community based organizations and nonprofits, resettlement agencies, and local city and county government offices. 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