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ASHA NOOR Campaign to TAKE ON HATE
Asha Noor serves as the Advocacy and Engagement Specialist for the Campaign to TAKE
ON HATE, led by the National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC).
Noor has worked both domestically and abroad in conflict zones with marginalized
communities, including women, afro-indigenous groups, refugees, religious minorities,
and trauma victims. Before coming to NNAAC, Noor worked with Islamic Relief USA,
where she gained an extensive understanding of international humanitarian issues. During
her graduate studies at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason
University, she has focused much of her research and work on Somalia and conflicts facing
the Somali Diaspora. Noor completed the bulk of her research and field work in Somaliland,
working with the Academy for Peace and Development, a think tank developing and
sustaining peace in the area.

AMARDEEP SINGH Open Society Foundations
Amardeep Singh is the program officer for the National Security and Human Rights
Campaign, which supports U.S.-based organizations working to promote national security
policies that respect human rights, civil liberties, and the rule of law. Prior to joining Open
Society, Singh spent 11 years at the Sikh Coalition, an organization he cofounded that is the
largest Sikh civil rights organization in the United States. He last served as its director of
programs, overseeing the Sikh Coalition’s use of litigation, advocacy, community organizing,
and strategic communications to advance social justice goals. In that role, Singh was invited
to provide sworn testimony before the U.S. Congress on the topic of religious profiling and
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on post-9/11 employment discrimination.
Over the past decade, Singh has served for four years on President Barack H. Obama’s
Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and taught a course at
Columbia University on law and ethnic identity. He received his J.D. from Case Western
Reserve University School of Law and his B.A. from Rutgers University.

10:15 AM – 11:15 AM

Building a Healthy and Inclusive Society Plenary Panel: Communities,
Policing, and Violence
Great Room 1

From military tactics to entrenched racial profiling, trust in law
enforcement’s efficacy and fairness is at an all-time low. This panel will
look at interconnected issues of violence, mass incarceration, and other
failures of the justice system. In overburdened communities throughout
the country, it falls to young electeds to counter violence, create new
models of policing, and promote restorative justice.

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