#TheThreeHijabis
This summer, these three women, along with 1.2 million people reclaimed the narrative from the racists.
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Amna Abdullatif
Amna Abdullatif is a community psychologist who has worked in the voluntary sector for over 15 years, leading national and international projects to support women and children.
She is also a professional coach interested in change and transition within an equity lens as well as supporting minortised women to take up space.
Amna completed her masters in community psychology and has her thesis 'The voices of women in the Arab Spring' published in the Journal of Social Science Education.
She is an international speaker and writer and has spoken across the UK as well as Palestine, Lebanon, Estonia to New Zealand and has been published in The Anthology of Silence.
She was elected as a local Councillor in 2019 representing the ward of Ardwick in Central Manchester as the first Arab and visibly Muslim woman.
Huda Jawad
Huda is an intersectional Muslim feminist and co-founder of the Faith and VAWG Coalition a partnership of organisations and activists working at the intersections\ of faith, feminism, violence against women and girls. She is a founding member of the Anti-Racism Working Group, tasked by the women’s sector to create an anti-racism charter that can be adopted sector wide.
Huda was born in Baghdad and left Iraq at the age of two. She travelled the Middle East throughout her childhood, settling in the UK in 1988. Her career spans over 20 years with a leading track record in campaigning, project management, training and systems entrepreneurship in intersectional work, violence against women & girls and anti-racist activism. She is former chair of the End Violence Against Women Coalition and former Lead Organiser of Women’s March London.
Shaista Aziz
Shaista Aziz is a journalist, writer, an anti-racism and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) activist and campaigner.
Shaista has more than twenty years experience of campaigning and working directly with and alongside marginalised people and communities on a local, national and international level. Her writing and journalism has been published across international publications including The Guardian, The New York Times, The Times, the BBC and others. She is a published author. Shaista is ’s a prolific international public speaker and broadcaster, she runs and facilitates workshops and training on Intersectionality, anti-racism and power. She’s the founder of Anti-Racist City Oxford. Shaista was a member of Oriel College, University of Oxford’s Rhodes Independent Commission of Inquiry. Shaista is Oxford City Council’s Cabinet Member for Inclusive Communities.