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Mehlam Bhuriwala
This interview is with Mehlam Bhuriwala, an activist with experience in a variety of organizing settings and a former employee of IDCL. Mehlam tells his story of growing up in Texas as a Pakistani-American and part of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim…
Tags: Activism, AL - Montgomery, Belonging, Community, Conservatism, Dawoodi Bohra, Desis, Family dynamics, Family Eldercare, First-generation Americans, Grief, Gujarati, Houston (Texas), Immigrant parents, Islam, Labor organizers, Mental health, Minorities, News, Nonprofits, Organizers, Pakistani-Americans, Palestine Solidarity Committee, Palestinian solidarity, Shia Islam, Student organizers, Systemic injustice, The University of Texas at Austin, United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), Urdu, Worker Rights Consortium (WRC)
Meili Criezis
This interview is with Meili Criezis, a former member of the Institute for Diversity and Civic Life team. Meili talks about growing up as a minority in majority White spaces, and the negative impacts of racial dynamics on her high school experience…