Advocate for #HumanRights & #GenderEmpowerment. Teacher at heart // Designer by profession
New York, USA
Joined August 2009
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.@RightsxTech is back in session—Wed. Nov 18th! This time exploring the intersections of algorithms and accountability with @nandoodles co-founder of Check My Ads and RxT organizer @beingbrina. Join us: bitly.com/RxT-Nov #RxT
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It’s okay if you don’t protest. Here’s how you can help. Even if it’s signing a petition or donating. 5 dollars from 100 people helps:
blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#
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My people-centred research experience continues in Costa Rica where I find signs of a nature trying to cope with its hardship. #designthinking
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Judges reflecting on the winning entries to the @VIRT_EU Design Challenge at #ORGCon2019
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At its core, abuses at the border are not about whether some CBP officers are good or bad people.
It’s about how our border policies are gravely dehumanizing, & strip all involved of human decency.
Once you order people to violate others’ rights, a culture can quickly devolve.
‘You don’t think that having 10,000 officers in a violent, racist group sharing rape memes of members of Congress points to any concern of a dehumanized culture?’ — @AOC pressed DHS Sec. Kevin McAleenan after he denied a dehumanized culture within Border Patrol
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The cruelty is the goal. It’s called “deterrence” - a policy stance that if our country inflicts enough pain on refugees, they will think twice before believing America is worth their dreams & aspirations.
Only policy change can end cruelty, not blank checks to the status quo.
The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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Join us for the full-year IDP in Costa Rica, where we will aim to combine the potential of the most diverse ecology with thought leadership in design. Merit based scholarships are now available for Costa Rican students: ciid.dk/costa-rica/
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This moment captures what it’s like for women in CBP custody to share a cramped cell—some held for 50 days—for them to be denied showers for up to 15 days and life-saving medication. For some, it also means being separated from their children. This is El Paso Border Station #1.
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These are concentration camps.
According to concentration camp experts, people begin to die due to overcrowding, neglect, and shortage of resources.
We saw all three of those signs on our trip yesterday. Another person died yesterday.
And those are the deaths we know about.
BREAKING: Office of the Inspector General releases new pictures of overcrowding at Border Patrol Facilities in TX. One senior manager calling this a “ticking time bomb.” #Immigration #ICE @NBCNews
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Today is #Juneteenth, the anniversary of when slavery was fully abolished in the U.S.
It took 2 years for slavery to end after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Here’s why:
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Devastating, dignified, powerful presentation by my sister Suzanne Barakat at the arraignment of the domestic terrorist responsible for the murder of #Deah, #Yusor, and #Razan.
Keep the Barakat and Abu Salha families in your prayers, and support the work of #OurThreeWinners.
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Also, so that this is very clear... This is what the Republican leadership group in the Alabama senate looks like, as advertised on their caucus’ website. These are not people who can get pregnant, not doctors, not even pretending to understand science: theguardian.com/us-news/2019…
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When you click on the @nytimes link and ya girl @MsMakkah is the first to be quoted 😍. It’s not easy to be a voice that speaks out against the mainstream but so happy she’s doing it. nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/il…
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Designing across Biological Scales is one of the 3 workshops that will take place in the Costa Rican jungle this #summer! Connect with the local #biodiversity in #CostaRica, and get the fundamentals of #design inspired by nature.
Learn more: ciid.dk/go/summer-school-cph…
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Neighbor-ly is a fictional #AI-driven #SmartHome product that tells neighbors when they're annoying a homeowner. Could such #Tech make society more hostile?
|| #IoTForAll #IoT #BigData #ML #MachineLearning iotforall.com/neighborly-iot…
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Neighbor-ly is a fictional #AI-driven #SmartHome product that tells neighbors when they're annoying a homeowner. Could such #Tech make society more hostile?
|| #IoTForAll #IoT #BigData #ML #MachineLearning iotforall.com/neighborly-iot… via @AzadYourself
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I don't know why people are confused by this, but there is no such thing as a Muslim name. Arab names are NOT Muslim names. Indonesian, Persian, Indin, Turkish, English names can all be Muslim. If the person is Muslim, their name is Muslim. #FullStop
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This is the 3rd #haka video I've seen to honor the victims of the #Christchurch attacks and I've teared up at each one. Thank you to all those in these videos.
Incredibly emotional display of the famous #NewZealand Haka performed to honor the victims of the #NewZealandMosqueAttack
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I am over protective of my father as a result of mosque shootings. We sat together 2 debrief what we know abt #NZMosqueShooting as he was getting ready for his morning walk. I couldn’t help but ask where r u going & can you not? I don’t like needing 2 say “pls be careful.”