Co-Founder
MPower Change

Linda Sarsour, a Brooklyn-raised Palestinian Muslim-American multi-award-winning racial justice and civil rights activist, community organizer, direct action strategist, and mother of three, co-founded the first Muslim online organizing platform, MPower Change; and Until Freedom, an intersectional racial justice organization. A national co-chair of the largest single-day protest in U.S. history, the Women’s March on Washington, Linda has been honored for her work by dozens of prestigious local and national organizations and institutions and is the author of: We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love & Resistance.

Featured Afternoon Session
Krista Tippett, Host of On Being

Krista Tippett, a Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, bestselling author, and former journalist and diplomat in Cold War Berlin, later studied theology at Yale Divinity School and eventually launched Speaking of Faith, which became On Being, a weekly national public radio show in 2003, that grew to over 400 stations across the U.S. and has received the highest honors in broadcasting, the Internet, and podcasting. In 2011, she created the Civil Conversations Project, and then The On Being Project. Among her many honors, she is a prestigious National Humanities Medalist, has received a Four Freedoms Medal of the Roosevelt Institute, holds honorary doctorates including from Yale and Middlebury College, and has published three books: Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living; Einstein’s God; and Speaking of Faith.