We are pleased to announce that Fatima Saidi has been hired as the National Campaign Director for We Are All America and will officially join the team on August 15th.
Fatima joins us from the Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition where she oversaw the rapid expansion of the coalition to 103 coalition members with a focus on engaging Ethnic Community Based Organizations (ECBOs). She has worked diligently to provide housing for newly arrived asylum seekers in Maine. During her time at MIRC, she embraced the Mainerly creed of “never letting a person go cold in the winter” and has applied this ethic to her work in progressing equity and inclusion for the most vulnerable members of our community. She has been involved in the We Are All America campaign and NPNA over the last two years and is eager to bring her coalition building expertise and diverse skill set to this role.
Born in Ghazni, Afghanistan, at the age of two, Fatima became a refugee when her family took refuge from the Taliban in Quetta, Pakistan. In 2013, Fatima arrived in Lewiston, Maine, as an international student at Bates College in 2013. She has worked with the International Institute of St. Louis in Missouri, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission and the United Nations in Kabul, Afghanistan, and co-founded the World Hazara Council in Vienna, Austria. In 2017, Fatima graduated from Bates College with a double major in political science and religious studies.
As an Afghan with Central Asian and Zoroastrian heritage, Fatima was raised with a reverence for trees. In her free time, she enjoys taking her overly large and overly friendly Bernese Mountain dog, named Azhdar which means dragon in Hazaragi, for hiking through New England’s forests.
We look forward to welcoming Fatima to her new role as we begin a new chapter of organizing and field building to uphold and continue strengthening our nation’s commitment to welcome those seeking freedom, safety and refuge in the United States.
Sincerely,
We Are All America
