Sussan Navabi

Sussan Navabi is an Adult Services Librarian at Alsip-Merrionette Park Public Library District,

Activist

Sussan Navabi got involved in activism before the U.S. invasion of Iraq with community group South Sider for Peace. An organizer with Students for Social Justice, a University of Illinois at Chicago organization committed to informed activism, since 2004. One of the University of Illinois at Chicago delegates to the 2007 Students for a Democratic Society Convention in Detroit^[1].

Ella's Daughters

In 2009 Sussan Navabi was a member of Chicago based organization Ella's Daughters-A network of artists, scholars and writers working in the tradition of militant Civil rights activist Ella Baker^[2].

We are a loose network of women who respect and admire Baker’s legacy, and are either interested in or already engaged in work that represents a continuation of her democratic, egalitarian humanistic tradition. We do not want to reinvent the wheel or duplicate or compete in any way with existing efforts. An argument can be made that the potential for a renewed progressive movement already exists and is embedded in the local trench work of organizers like Ella Baker.

Prominent members include Bernardine Dohrn, Tracye Matthews, Camille Odeh and Barbara Ransby.