Empowering Women Through Community Organizing From Egypt to New York | Rana Abdelhamid
We talked to Rana about the organizations she founded like MALIKAH: a global grassroots movement committed to building safety and power for all women through self-defense, healing justice, community organizing and financial literacy; and Little Egypt: a grassroots movement supporting local community structures to create safe spaces and economic power for the Egyptian diaspora.
Rana Abdelhamid is Egyptian American who hails from and represents Queens NYC. Abdelhamid has a BA from Middlebury in International Politics and Economics and a master's degree in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School. She was named a Truman Scholar and is one of youngest serving board members of Amnesty International USA. Rana is an internationally acclaimed community organizer, first-degree black belt, public speaker and social entrepreneur focused on mass mobilization, international solidarity and the empowerment of marginalized communities.
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