This free conference on Thursday, July 7, 2016 from 9:30 am – 4 pm at the Hindu Temple Society of North America, 45-57 Bowne Street, in Flushing, Queen is designed for youth to be heard and for them to meet other young New Yorkers from different backgrounds and faiths to discuss diversity and other pressing matters of the day. One of our many distinguished speakers will be:
Aber Kawas
Aber Kawas graduated in 2014 from The City College of New York’s International Studies Program with a concentration in Latin American Studies. Aber has interned at CAIR New York, Urban Justice Center’s Street Vendor Project and is now the Youth Lead Organizer at the Arab American Association of New York where she previously worked as a Fellow in 2012 registering over 800 voters with the Verazzano Bridge Coalition. She has worked with several organizations in the city around issues such as immigration, police surveillance, racial profiling, and hopes to work to improve the conditions of immigrants in the New York area by providing programs and services to both them and their children. In addition she has focused her academic career thus far on studying parallels between Latin America and the Middle East. She hopes, through her work and studies, to bring together several ethnic and religious communities in the future to advocate in unity against social injustices.
