It starts on the campaign trail, then at the ballot box. Our country’s history reached a terrifying new low this week as President Trump and his administration live out their campaign promises to expel Latinx immigrants and ban Muslims from entering the U.S. With the heart wrenching images of children being separated from their families ...

Boston’s Omar Khoshafa is one of the many American Muslims we have watched grow and harness their own civic leadership. Formerly a Harvard Presidential Fellow at Jetpac, Omar is now working at Boston City Hall in the Mayor’s office, and he still takes time to help with Jetpac initiatives. Most recently, Omar mentored Muslim youth ...

This past Sunday, local Muslim youth from the Boston area gathered to knock doors in Cambridge and educate our neighbors about gun violence as part of Jetpac’s Youth Ramadan Knockathon. In the hours leading up to maghrib, Muslim youth knocked over 425 doors in East Cambridge to raise awareness about an issue on the hearts ...

Kareem Kandil, a Jetpac Fellow and engineer setting his sights on Pennsylvania’s 30th House District, is known for his activism in minority communities in the broader Pittsburgh region. Our most recent graduate of the Public Service Fellowship program, Kareem volunteered for Bernie Sanders’ primary campaign and later campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential ...

The Jetpac team was excited and grateful to visit the beautiful Islamic Community Center of Tempe, Arizona earlier this month. We taught two sessions of our Youth Civic Education Program and presented about our work and the civic landscape for the American Muslim community. We’d love to join you at your upcoming Iftar gathering to ...

Tahirah Amatul-Wadud is running in the Democratic primary for U.S. Congress in Massachusetts’ First District. A lawyer, mother, and a community leader, she came to Jetpac to prepare herself to run for office. “Running for office as a Muslim presents its own challenge. I was [unprepared] as a Muslim running for office,” Tahirah said, adding ...

Source: Bushra Amiwala Congratulations to Bushra Amiwala, Jetpac Fellow and candidate for Cook County, IL Commission. You can find her on the January 29, 2018 cover of TIME Magazine. Bushra went into politics to change the narrative about Muslim women. She announced her intention to run for office to give “a voice to her underrepresented ...

We are proud to have partnered with the Islamic Center of Boston in Wayland, MA to pilot our Youth Civic Education Program, a weekend course that teach high school students about government and leadership. As part of our core mission to increase the civic education and political engagement of American Muslims, Jetpac’s Youth Civic Education ...

We are excited to announce that Jetpac is a 2018 recipient of the Pillars Fund grant award! This generous grant supports Jetpac’s work to expand our programming and further our mission to train and activate American Muslims leaders in the civic space. About Pillars: Since 2010, Pillars has invested in opportunities for American Muslims to ...