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Nadia Tonova
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Nadia Tonova serves as the National Network for Arab American Communities Director. In this capacity, she oversees all aspects of programming within NNAAC, including Advocacy & Civic Engagement, Organizational Development, and the Arab American Resources Corps, a national AmeriCorps program. She also oversees NNAAC governance and member relations. Prior to serving in this position, Ms. Tonova led the Advocacy & Civic Engagement program with NNAAC for four years. She led a variety of policy initiatives, campaigns, and activities pertaining to immigrant rights, civil liberties and human rights, and civic engagement. She also offers technical assistance to organizations across the country in these areas. For full bio click here.

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Sacha Baron Cohen Can't Make Profiling Funny

232 Comments | Posted February 28, 2012 | g:i A

Did you watch the Academy Awards? Catch Sacha Baron Cohen on the red carpet spilling ashes down the front of Ryan Seacrest? Pretty hilarious, huh?

For Arab Americans, not so much.

Cohen was buffooning as a fictitious Arab dictator to promote his upcoming film. There was plenty of...

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Americans: Much More Than a Profile

0 Comments | Posted December 9, 2009 | g:i A

On October 7th Ms. Orellana was quietly eating her lunch when two Frederick County Deputy Sheriffs interrogated and detained her solely based on the color of her skin, according to a lawsuit recently filed in US District Court.

Two hundred and twenty-two years after the U.S. Constitution was signed,...

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