Zeynep Guven, co-director of Muslims and Allies at Southwestern
Meilie Criezes, research analyst at the Houston Mayor’s office of Public Safety and Homeland Security and intersectional community activist
Sarah Ally, human resources specialist, and community outreach activist in the Dallas area
Omar Salim, former president of the UT MSA and architecture major at UT Austin
Sarah Youssef, part of the current leadership in the UT MSA
Muna Hussaini, Senior Manager at PayPal and formerly managed PayPal’s Diversity & Inclusion program 

Moderator: Dakota Cortez, Gilman Scholarship recipient and current SU Anthropology and Feminist Studies major

Dr. Denise Spellberg, Professor of History at The University of Texas at Austin. Her work on intellectual, religious, and gender history focuses on the medieval Islamic world, from Iran to North Africa, and also on Islam and Muslims in early modern and contemporary Europe and the United States. She is author of Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders and Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past