Event

Gaza Teach-In

*NOTE: FREE CHILDCARE WILL BE AVAILABLE*

Speakers include:
Hasheemah
Leila Abu-Orf
Devorah Levy-Pearlman
Moderator: Tracie L. Washington
BIOS

Hasheemah is a Palestinian public health professional and writer.

Leila Abu-Orf is a Palestinian American with family in Gaza. Her father was born and raised in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip and was involved in the first Intifada. Leila lived in Ramallah in the West Bank as a little girl but hasnt been able to return to visit her family since 1997. Her father was supposed to make a visit to see his family in Gaza for the first time in over a decade at the end of the month, and now shes just hoping that there will still be a Gaza for her and her family to one day visit.

Devorah Levy-Pearlman is a poet, essayist, and organizer raised in Central California and based in New Orleans. She is grounded in the anti-Zionist Jewish community and in liberation struggles building beyond colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism worldwide.

Tracie L. Washington is a very proud native New Orleanian, and graduate of Carleton College, Drake University (MPA), The University of Texas School of Law, and the University of New Orleans (MBA). For over 30 years Tracie has maintained a general civil practice concentrated in civil rights, education law (traditional & charter k-12, and HigherEd), and labor/employment law. Post Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Tracies practice expanded to fight for the civil rights of individuals affected by these national catastrophes, with Louisiana Justice Institute (LJI), a nonprofit human rights organization and law firm. In addition to her work with LJI, Tracie has served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Southern University Law Centeer, and is now its Director of Title IX Compliance/Title IX Coordinator.