In partnership with the Toledo Lucas Count
y Public Library\, Toledo Museum of Art and Welcome TLC\, you are invited
to a panel discussion on Stan Douglas' science-fiction inspired film
Sara Dastagir joined the I slamic Center of Greater Toledo in February 2021 as the Executive Director of the Center\, working in collaboration with Council and reporting to th e Council president. Sara is a dedicated leader in her community with expe rience working in government management and community building. Over the p ast three years\, she served as the Assistant to the mayor of Toledo and m ost recently Deputy Director of the Human Relations Commission (HRC) for t he City of Toledo. During her time at the City\, Sara was instrumental in creating language access policies and procedures\, working in collaboratio n with the legislative director to establish the HRC\, and overseeing comm unity-building initiatives. In 2018\, Sara joined the ICGT Council as the youngest member elected to the Council. She oversaw the redevelopment of t he masjid&rsquo\;s website\, redesigned the Center&rsquo\;s social media p latforms\, and led the online creative content team during the COVID-19 pa ndemic
\nEugenio Mollo Jr. is the managing attorney of the Agricultural Worker and Immigrant Rights Practice Group at Advocat es for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE) in Toledo. ABLE is a nonprofit organiza tion that provides legal assistance to help low-income individuals achieve self-reliance\, and equal justice and economic opportunity. Mollo began h is career at ABLE as an Equal Justice Works Fellow\, focusing his advocacy on behalf of immigrant workers and detained immigrants. He now leads a te am of attorneys and advocates who represent farmworker and immigrant clien ts primarily on immigration\, civil rights\, and employment matters.
\nMeyling Ruiz is the program assistant at Local Initiat ive Support Corporation (LISC)\, a national community development non-prof it\, where she supports and cultivates relationships and collaborations am ong core partners\, community based organizations\, and other institutions . She also manages the AmeriCorps program for the Toledo region in which s he fosters a team member-oriented\, high performance culture that emphasiz es empowerment\, quality\, productivity\, goal attainment\, and integrity for all AmeriCorps members. Emigrating from Managua\, Nicaragua as an infa nt\, Meyling lived in Miami until the age of four before her family settle d in Toledo. Fluent in both Spanish and English\, Meyling serves as a bili ngual interpreter in her free time.
\nNazarene Tubman is a first generation Liberian American. Due to the civil wars in Liber ia\, her family sought refuge in the United States where she grew up in Ga ithersburg\, Maryland\, USA. She holds her degree in Public Policy Analysi s with a concentration in Health Policy from the University of North Carol ina at Chapel Hill. Nazarene is currently pursuing her Master of Public He alth at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an expected c ompletion of May 2022. For the past 15 years\, Nazarene has worked in clin ical research and currently serves as a Director\, Vaccine Clinical Develo pment overseeing global zika\, chikungunya\, flu\, and COVID/flu combinati on vaccine studies.
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