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Maha ElGenaidi, President & Executive Director
Maha is the founder of ING.

Maha is the founder of ING and author of training handbooks on outreach for American Muslims as well as training seminars for public institutions on developing cultural competency with the American Muslim community. Recently named by the San Jose Business Journal as one of Silicon Valley's 2010 Women of Influence, Maha is active with many state and federal government agencies and was a former commissioner on Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante's Commission for One California as well as the Santa Clara County Human Relations Commission. She currently serves on the California Three Rs Advisory Committee and is an Advisor to California's Commission on Police Officers Standards and Training (POST) for cultural diversity and hate crime prevention. Maha has been recognized with numerous civil rights awards, including the "Civil Rights Leadership Award" from the California Association of Human Relations Organizations, and the "Citizen of the Year Award" from the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. She is pursuing her graduate degree in religious studies at Stanford University and received her bachelors degree in Political Science and Economics from the American University in Cairo. She is married and lives in Santa Clara, California.

Ameena Jandali, Content Director
Ameena oversees all content development for the organization.

Ameena is a founding member of ING. She is an editor of ING training handbooks on outreach for American Muslims. She is also the co-designer and developer of ING’s educational presentations and cultural competency seminars, overseeing all ING content. She is also a speaker and trainer for ING. Since 1993, she has delivered hundreds of presentations in schools, colleges, universities, churches, and other venues on Islam and related subjects. Her speaking engagements have included repeated lectures at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Sacramento State, St. Mary’s College, San Jose State, San Francisco State, Los Positas College, Diablo Valley College, as well as lectures at Stanford, Santa Clara University, University of San Francisco, California Institute of Integral Studies, School of the Pacific, Cal State Hayward, Chabot College, Ohlone College, San Francisco City College, Sacramento State, Sonoma State, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Texas A & M. She has also delivered cultural competency trainings to a variety of healthcare providers, including repeated trainings at Kaiser, UC San Francisco and Sutter-Alta Bates. She has conducted trainings for dozens of police departments throughout the Bay Area, and conducted a weekly class for the SFPD over an entire year. She has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including KPIX, KPFA, and KQED. She has presented on a variety of interfaith panels and events, including conferences and series through the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She has also been a frequent guest at conventions, seminars, and other forums, speaking on a variety of topics relating to Muslim outreach, family, and the environment. She currently team teaches a class on Islam at San Francisco City College. She received her M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and B.A. in History from the University of Illinois.

Ali Asghar Rangwala, Operations Director
Ali Asghar directs operations, accounting and administration.

Ali Asghar has over 25 years of experience in the areas of accounting, operations and engineering, working in the U.S. and abroad. Previously employed in the construction, semi-conductor and IT services industries, his experience spans business management, accounting, civil engineering design and DoD project management. Ali Asghar received his M.B.A. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from San Jose State University. He is passionate about volunteering, loves music, reading, camping, hiking and travel. Ali Asghar lives in Santa Clara with his wife and two children. 

Duaa Elzeney, Programs Director
Duaa directs ING’s programs and marketing.

Duaa has over eleven years of experience in management, consulting, analysis, and marketing. She has worked at the Brookings Institution, Henry L. Stimson Center, McKinsey, Management Systems International, and the International Peace Academy as a policy analyst and on democracy, governance, and economic development. She has managed multi-million dollar projects, built and revamped marketing strategies, strategic planning, streamlined operations, revised program missions, and fundraised for millions of dollars. She has also conducted policy analysis and worked extensively on bridging the divide between Muslims and non-Muslims across the U.S., Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. She continues to write policy pieces. She has extensive involvement with grassroots non-profits, particularly in start up operations, management, and fundraising. Duaa received her M.A. from Loyola University Chicago and B.A. from Calvin College in Michigan.

Jason van Boom, Fund Development Manager
Jason oversees grant writing and other fund development

Jason  has worked for Bay Area faith-based nonprofits since 2004, doing grant writing for both Christian and Muslim organizations.  He has also served as host of Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California's "Islam and Authors," a program co-sponsored by ING. Jason combines his grant writing experience with knowledge of Western views of Islam. He is a professional historian and adjunct professor at Pacific School of Religion at Graduate Theological Union. His writing his PhD dissertation in the area of early modern Christian history. Jason was awarded the Newhall Fellowship three times, and belongs to the cohort of first recipients of a grant from Islamic Scholarship Fund. He has also served as a certified speaker for ING's Islamic Speakers Bureau. He is a blogger for Huffington Post.

Haroon Moghul, Content Manager
Haroon creates and writes content for ING

Haroon Moghul has worked for The Maydan Institute. Through Maydan he has counseled and advised members of the European Parliament, ambassadors and representatives of two Western European governments on Muslim assimilation and identity, extremism, and Afghanistan-Pakistan and Iran; organized and led strategy sessions with the State Department’s International Visitors Program, and has provided media training, leadership and public relations workshops for various Muslim communities. Mr. Moghul served as Director of Public Relations at the Islamic Center at New York University (NYU) from 2007 to 2009. His academic engagements include Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota. Mr. Moghul has been interviewed or otherwise featured on CNN, al-Hurra, The History Channel, ABC-7, Voice of America, National Public Radio (NPR), UN Radio (Arabic), The New Yorker, TIME, the Guardian, and The National (Abu Dhabi). Formerly contributing editor and end-page columnist for Islamica Magazine, Mr. Moghul maintains a popular blog, Avari, which won several Brass Crescent Awards, including wins for Best Muslim Blog, Best Thinker and Best Writing. His first novel, The Order of Light, was released by Penguin Global in 2006. He was selected as one of over 500 global Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow (MLT) and participated in the 2009 MLT Conference in Doha, Qatar. He received his M.A. in Middle East and South Asian Studies from Columbia University, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate and his B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and Philosophy from NYU.

Mark Bilal King, PhD, Content Manager
Bilal creates and writes content for ING

Bilal is an assistant professor in the Morehouse College Sociology Department in Atlanta, GA. He has been doing social science research since 1995. This work has included organizing sessions and entire symposia at local and regional meetings. It has also included making professional presentations at national conferences, and writing scholarly articles, book chapters, and monographs. Bilal’s research on Black racial identity and American racial/ethnic inequality has been primarily rooted in the disciplines of psychology and sociology. However, he has also published in multidisciplinary areas, such as family studies and culturally competent systems of care. He began serving as a graduate teaching assistant in 1999, and moved on to designing and teaching his own classes in 2004. He has taught the following courses: African & African-Diaspora Families (a study-abroad course taught in Ghana), African American Families, The Family, Sociology of the Family, Racial and Ethnic Relations, Introduction to African American Studies, Social Inequality: race, Class, and Gender, Men in Society, Senior Seminar in Sociology, Introduction to Social Statistics, Principles of Sociology, and Introductory Sociology. Video and film analysis, as well as online applications, feature prominently in Bilal’s teaching strategies. In 2006, Bilal was given the Middle Tennessee State University Ebony Award for Teacher of the Year. Middle Tennessee State University is one of the largest public institutions of higher education in the state of Tennessee, and enrolls mostly first-generation college students from the middle-Tennessee region. Bilal earned his undergraduate degree in psychology at Howard University, an elite institution in Washington, D.C. Bilal earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in sociology at The Johns Hopkins University.

Dustin Craun, Content Manager
Dustin creates and writes content for ING

Dustin Craun is an activist, a writer, a facilitator and an intellectual who has worked with many organizations in California, Colorado, Mexico, and in Ghana. These organizations include: The American Indian Movement of Colorado, the Transform Columbus Day Alliance, the Wassa Association of Communities Affected by Mining, the Hip Hop Congress, and Annunciation House. Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area Dustin has worked as a writer, researcher, consultant and student advisor for Zaytuna College. Currently he works as a Content Manager at Islamic Networks Group, where he writes and designs curriculums, presentations and various media projects.  He has lectured throughout the country at many universities and conferences and has been featured in a number of print and television media outlets. He has a Masters Degree from the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, and a BA in Ethnic Studies from the University of Colorado-Boulder. Dustin has studied Islam with some of the world’s leading Muslim scholars. His research interests include: Ethnic Studies, Islamic studies, critical whiteness studies, the modernity/ coloniality research project, Islam in America, grassroots social movements, classical Islamic epistemology, and spirituality.

Henry Millstein, Programs Coordinator
Henry schedules presentations and panels for the speaker bureau programs.

Henry has extensive interfaith experience. He holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from the University of California Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union, with a focus on Jewish-Christian relations. He worked for sixteen years with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in Oregon developing a program to preserve and teach their native languages and cultures, during which he was privileged to participate in their traditional religious life. His interfaith experience also includes close involvement with Jewish and Buddhist communities. He has taught humanities and history of religion at GTU, Stanford, and the University of California Berkeley and Davis. Henry has a B.A. in Classics from Reed College and an M.F.A. in playwriting from Carnegie-Mellon University and is a published poet and fiction writer. He also has an extensive grant-writing and administrative background.

Sadaf Siddiq, Development Coordinator

Sadaf has extensive experience in the non-profit sector, particularly grass-roots and activist organizations that focus on Islamic relations. She is an active volunteer for the Children of Afghanistan Hope Project, working to provide education and basic aid to orphans and widows. She is committed to social justice and activism in her community. She graduated with honors and received a Bachelors degree in Political Science with a pre-law emphasis and a Minor in Arabic Islamic Middle Eastern Studies from Santa Clara University in 2009. She is currently working on her Masters degree in Public Administration at San Jose State University.

Tim Brauhn, Social Networking Consultant

Tim developed FaithNews, ING's multifaith mobile app, and handles ING's social networks. Tim received his MA in International Studies at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver with a concentration in Religion and Politics in the Middle East and Central Asia. He also has a BA in English Language and Literature from Aurora University in Illinois. As Wackerlin Fellow at Aurora University’s Wackerlin Center for Faith and Action, he collaborated with numerous civic/religious groups in the area. Tim was an inaugural member of the Faiths Act Fellowship, an elite international program for interfaith leaders in the US, UK, and Canada. The Fellowship is a collaboration between the Interfaith Youth Core and Tony Blair Faith Foundation. He worked in the San Francisco Bay Area to build an intercollegiate interfaith coalition to fight malaria deaths and promote the Millennium Development Goals. As a writer, Tim is currently a Contributing Scholar at State of Formation, a community of emerging religious and ethical leaders, speaking from their convictions about the most pressing issues of the day and fostering each other’s growth through online dialogue and meaningful engagement.

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