American Muslim Social Entrepreneurship — A Strategy Building Session Last week Jetpac was honored to attend the American Muslim Consumer Consortium's "Muslim Entrepreneurs for Social Good" Strategy Setting Roundtable, hosted in partnership with DinarStandard. This full day event, held at The Cornell Club in NYC on Thursday June 27th, brought Muslim Social Entrepreneurs from around ...
Jetpac: Building American Muslim Political Infrastructure
Jetpac & The Moth
Jetpac hosted The Moth at the end of January for a storytelling workshop! 15 American Muslims from the Greater Boston Area participated in this opportunity to refine their storytelling skills and present their stories to invited guests. The Moth is a nonprofit organization based in NYC that specializes in the art and science of storytelling. …
Jetpac Fellow Announces Bid For Congress
“To run as a minority candidate presents unique difficulties. Jetpac is dedicated to allowing an even playing field for those underrepresented and brings sophisticated knowledge to the table on the issues.”
American Muslims in the 2018 Midterms
A Year of Firsts, and Historic Turnout! In this historic election year, 49% of eligible voters voted in the first midterm election ever to have more than 100 million voters. We haven't had a turnout percent this high since 1966, and you'd have to look all the way back to 1914 to find an election with ...
JETPAC TO HOST CANDIDATE FORUM IN MA’S MOST DIVERSE DISTRICT
BOSTON, MA—Jetpac, a Cambridge based Muslim civic organization, and New England’s largest mosque are holding a candidate forum for the Massachusetts’ 7th Congressional District Primary campaign. But only the challenger will be in attendance. Incumbent Representative Michael Capuano. Image courtesy of his campaign website. Boston City Councilor (at-large) Ayanna Pressley. Image courtesy of her campaign ...
Jummah with Jetpac
We are excited to announce a new “Jummah with Jetpac” campaign! Starting this fall, the Jetpac team plans to visit 44 jummahs across Massachusetts, meeting new members of the community and spreading our mission to advance American Muslim leadership and engagement with political advocacy. You can be part of the Jummah with Jetpac campaign by ...
The Muslim Ban: Laws and Policies Should Represent Us All
It starts on the campaign trail, then at the ballot box. Our country’s history reached a terrifying new low this week as President Trump and his administration live out their campaign promises to expel Latinx immigrants and ban Muslims from entering the U.S. With the heart wrenching images of children being separated from their families ...
Meet Omar Khoshafa
Boston’s Omar Khoshafa is one of the many American Muslims we have watched grow and harness their own civic leadership. Formerly a Harvard Presidential Fellow at Jetpac, Omar is now working at Boston City Hall in the Mayor’s office, and he still takes time to help with Jetpac initiatives. Most recently, Omar mentored Muslim youth ...
Boston Muslim Youth Canvassers Educate Neighbors on Gun Violence
This past Sunday, local Muslim youth from the Boston area gathered to knock doors in Cambridge and educate our neighbors about gun violence as part of Jetpac’s Youth Ramadan Knockathon. In the hours leading up to maghrib, Muslim youth knocked over 425 doors in East Cambridge to raise awareness about an issue on the hearts ...
Kareem Kandil Graduates Jetpac Fellowship Program
Kareem Kandil, a Jetpac Fellow and engineer setting his sights on Pennsylvania’s 30th House District, is known for his activism in minority communities in the broader Pittsburgh region. Our most recent graduate of the Public Service Fellowship program, Kareem volunteered for Bernie Sanders’ primary campaign and later campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential ...