Shafeka Hashash
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Shafeka Hashash is the Program manager of Guaranteed Income at Economic Security Project.
About
- Shafeka Hashash was the co-president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), New York University (NYU). In that capacity, Hashash endorsed the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
- In a May 2014 speech, appealing to the Palestinian community to be more welcoming to individuals with disabilities and women, Hashash (who is blind, herself) exhorted her audience to stop discriminating against the disabled, because —as she put it: “The one thing that does not discriminate against man, or woman, or disability, is the [Israeli] Occupation."
- Hashash leveraged animosity toward Israel extensively throughout her talk, urging: “As much as our community needs to change some aspects, a large reason we have to do this is to become a stronger community against Zionism."
- Hashash listed as one of her stellar achievements as SJP co-president, the slipping of “fake eviction notices — saying we were going to destroy students’ rooms" under 2000 doors. She stated her pleasure that this “made Zionists very upset," that the school was in “uproar" and that she “even had the Vice-President of the University call her" on her cell phone.
- The salient points of the incident in which Hashash took such pride are further described below.
- She was profiled by Washington Square News as one of the most influential NYU students in 2013.
- As of July 2018, Hashash’s LinkedIn page said she was a women's advocate at New American Pathways since May 2017. Her LinkedIn also said that she graduated NYU in 2015 with a dual bachelor’s degree in Political Science, Middle East Studies, and Islamic Studies. In 2016, she graduated from NYU with a master’s degree in Political Economy.
- On September 1, 2018, Hashash’s Facebook said she started a new job at New American Pathways as a Senior Program Coordinator in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Now Economic Justice Programs Manager at Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
Guaranteed Income
Shafeka Hashash met with with Ayanna Pressley, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Sabrina Aviles and Jan Schakowsky to "discuss guaranteed income" according to an X post from the Economic Security Project dated Dec 15, 2023.[1]
21/22 Steering Committee
Metro Atlanta Democratic Socialists of America 21/22 Steering Committee.
- Shafeka Hashash, Co-chair[2]
- Kelsea Bell, Co-chair
- Uzma Azhar, At-Large
- Kiana Elkins, At-Large
- Miracle Fletcher, At-Large
- Matt Manning, At-Large
- Marco Orrel, Recording Secretary
- Joshua McShane, Membership Secretary
- Nate Knauf, Treasurer