Farhana Khera: Leading the Fight to Protect the Civil Rights of American Muslims
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Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates will speak about her work upholding the civil rights of Americans of all faiths, and tackling the most urgent issues facing the American Muslim community.
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Farhana Khera is the first executive director of Muslim Advocates. Prior to joining Muslim Advocates in 2005, Ms. Khera was Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Property Rights. In the Senate, she worked for six years directly for Senator Russell D. Feingold (D-WI), the Chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee. Ms. Khera focused substantially on the Patriot Act, racial and religious profiling, and other civil liberties issues raised by the government’s anti-terrorism policies after September 11, 2001. |
