During his 25 years at the helm of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network, Rami Nashashibi has built the group into a force for activism on Chicago’s troubled South Side. Here are a few of his ideas on how to run a multifaceted faith-based advocacy organization:
Learn from more experienced activists. Upon founding the network, known by its acronym IMAN, Nashashibi began working intimately with others, including a rabbi and a female African-American Pentecostal preacher, Patricia Van Pelt Watkins, who helped him understand the possibilities of organizing neighborhoods. “These were people who were already doing amazing work in our area,” he says. The preacher, Patricia Watkins, “taught me how to create broad-based coalitions,” Nashashibi says.
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