Thoughts from an Everyday Muslim Woman - Aliya Latif

Aliya Latif's speech at the 10th Annual Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial Lecture & Award Ceremony "Honoring Women Who Dedicate Their Lives to Helping Others" after receiving the Compass Award. This award is given to women who, through their exceptional dedication, mark as well as forge new directions for their communities.

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Aliya Latif is a Research Associate at the Islamic Center at NYU.

She has a Juris Doctor degree from Seton Hall University School of Law and holds a Bachelor's degree in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies from Barnard College, Columbia University. Prior to joining ICNYU, Aliya worked as the Civil Rights Director at the New York chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), America's largest Muslim civil rights organization.

In 2007, she cofounded the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition, a New York based group of nearly a dozen advocacy organizations which aimed to articulate a civil rights and community perspective on domestic security discourse. She sat on the media committee of Muslim School Holidays Coalition - a broad based alliance of more than 100 unions, civic, interfaith and civil rights organizations calling for the incorporation of Eid-ul-Adha and Eid-ul Fitr in the public school system. She also sat on the steering committee of the New York Neighbors for American Values --a diverse coalition of 138 organizations, that came together to support the construction of an Islamic Center a few blocks from Ground Zero in the face of rising anti-Muslim sentiment and mosque opposition nationwide.

Aliya was recognized for her civil rights advocacy efforts by "Time Out NY" as the Next Generation of Civil Right Action Heroes and "elan: the Guide to Global Muslim Culture" as the Next Wave of Civil Rights Heroes. She was selected as one of 100 young American Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow in politics, art, media and academia by the Cordoba Initiative and American Society for Muslim Advancement. Society. She has been quoted and featured in major mainstream, local and ethnic media, including AP, NYT, Washington Post and LA Times on pressing issues and current events related to American Muslims, civil rights and religious inclusion.

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