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Kareem W. Shora

Kareem W. Shora is Executive Director and former Director of the Legal Department for the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee (ADC). Shora is a recipient of the “2003 American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Human Rights Award.” His work has been published by the National Law Journal, TRIAL Magazine, the Georgetown University Law Center's Journal on Poverty Law and Public Policy, the Harvard University JFK School of Government Asian American Policy Review, the American Bar Association (ABA) Air and Space Lawyer, and the Yeshiva University Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal. A frequent guest on Al-Jazeera and numerous American television programs, Shora has spoken about civil rights, civil liberties and immigration policy with many national and international media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Voice of America, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, and the Chicago Tribune among others. Shora holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD) degree from the West Virginia University (WVU) College of Law and the LL.M. specialty in International Legal Studies from the American University Washington College of Law.

Mr. Shora has lectured our trainees on Civil Liberties issues and coalition work.

 

Maya Berry

After more than a decade of political work, Maya M. Berry co-founded the MidAmr Group in 2003 to improve U.S. bilateral relations with the Arab and Muslim world on the economic, political and cultural fronts. A private consulting company, the MidAmr Group is based in Washington DC and maintains a regional office in Egypt. Prior to establishing MidAmr, Berry served as the Legislative Director for the second highest-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, Minority Whip David E. Bonior (D-MI). Previously, she served as the Director of Government Relations for the Arab American Institute. A regular commentator on U.S.-Arab relations, Berry is currently the guest host of Abu Dhabi TV’s Viewpoint with Jim Zogby, an award winning public affairs program. She was also the on-air co-host of Arab Radio and Television’s (ART) Washington Insider, a weekly live, call-in television program that airs in the United States and throughout the Arab and Muslim world.

Ms. Berry has lectured our trainees on lobbying Congress.

 

Marvin Wingfield

Marvin Wingfield is the ADC Director of Education and Outreach. He began working with ADC in the early 1980s and is ADC's longest-term staff member. He has been ADC’s liaison with many of its foreign policy and civil liberties coalition partners, and has been instrumental for a quarter of a century in building political bridges between the Arab American community and the rest of American society. He manages ADC's intern program and the "Reaching the Teachers" program of outreach to k-12 educators around the country. He has a B.A in Sociology from William and Mary, a M.A. in Biblical Studies from the Earlham School of Religion (Quaker), and spent two years in the Religious Studies doctoral program at the Catholic University of America.

Mr. Wingfield has lectured our trainees on building coalitions and outreach between Arab Americans and other segments of American society.

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