Dalia Hashad
Template:TOCnestleft Dalia Hashad... is an attorney and a campaign director at the global advocacy group Avaaz.org.
Activism
Dalia Hashad was an advocate in the ACLU's Campaign Against Racial Profiling, focusing specifically on issues confronting Arab, Muslim and South-Asian Americans following September 11, 2001.
Dalia received her B.A in Environmental Policy from the University of California at Berkeley and her law degree from New York University's School of Law. While studying at NYU, she was a staff editor of the Journal of Law and Social Change. She also founded and served as Chair of NYU's Middle Eastern Law Student Association. Upon graduating from NYU, Dalia worked as a litigator at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom. As a member of the Palestine Peace Project, Dalia Hashad worked in the West Bank with LAW: Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment.
In her capacity as an advocate at the ACLU, she worked closely with Arab, Muslim and South Asian organizations in the US to coordinate national campaigns and events. She runs a flexible and inclusive campaign so that the organization can best serve the needs of these communities. Her work focuses on civil liberties advocacy and protection; the plight of detainees; community outreach and empowerment; and racial profiling.[1]
Left Forum
Michael Steven Smith, Dalia Hashad, Director, American Program, Amnesty International, Vincent Warren, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights and John Ehrenberg were speakers on the Bush and Co.'s War on Civil Liberties and What it Means For Our Future panel sponsored by Law and Disorder Radio and Center for Constitutional Rights at the Left Forum. The forum was held March 9 - 11, 2007 at Cooper Union College, New York City.[2]