S. Nadia Hussain Email & Phone Number

Advocating on national early learning policies.

• Running a national campaign on maternal justice, which covers maternal health/mortality/morbidity, police reform and reducing mass incarceration.• Organizing, mobilizing and empowering members to advocate on local, state and federal policies.• Utilizing social and traditional media to uplift issues of maternal justice nationally.• Supporting and championing legislation both on Capitol Hill and in local communities.• Joining coalitions and cultivating partnerships to successfully push forward MomsRising’s focus issue areas.• Crafting and sending out petitions to organize members to support around our campaigns and projects.• Representing MomsRising at public events and in media as the face of our maternal justice work.

Newark, Nj

• The ACLU of New Jersey works to defend liberty throughout the state of New Jersey through involvement in litigation and advocacy on behalf of individuals and lobbying on scores of bills in the state legislature and local councils. • Setting policy, raising funds, and providing legal and fiduciary oversight.• Serving as Affiliate Equity Officer, ensuring equity in all aspects of organizational leadership, hiring and practices.

Paterson, Nj

Empowering, supporting and addressing the unique needs of women from the Bangladeshi community through grassroots organizing, service referrals and cultivating sisterhood.

EmbraceRace is an emerging, multiracial, online community of parents, teachers, and other caring adults striving to engage race in a healthy, constructive and courageous way as we nurture the children in our care. Our goals are:◦ To educate and inform adults about the pervasive impact of race in kids’ lives◦ To help caregivers nurture resilient kids of color and racial literacy in all kids◦ To help caring adults become effective racial equity advocates for kids

Upper Saddle River

• Directing, coordinating and managing the Vote Everywhere program, which develops a national network of college campus leaders who engage, educate and mobilize their communities to take collective action through voter registration efforts and social justice advocacy.•Providing leadership training to college students on community organizing and coalition building. •Organizing students for voting rights rallies, marches and political advocacy efforts.•Recruiting and maintaining strategic relationships with Vote Everywhere partner universities and colleges. •Cultivating and stewarding collaborations with partner organizations.•Representing the organization to coalitions of organizations nationwide to work on voting rights issues and student civic engagement. •Coaching, mentoring and recognizing Vote Everywhere student leaders.•Initiating, developing and evaluating program policies, procedures, and accountability measures for student participants.•Developing program infrastructure and tracking metrics to gauge program's success and growth. •Organizing and implementing events including handling logistics for yearly national Vote Everywhere retreat, workshops and assisting with yearly fundraising gala.•Assisting with marketing efforts and fundraising.•Developing program messaging and running social media outreach (including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram).

• NAPAWF is the only national, multi-issue Asian and Pacific Islander (API) women's rights organization in the country. NAPAWF’s six issue areas of focus are civil rights, economic justice, educational access, ending violence against women, health and immigration and refugee rights. • Advocating on Capitol Hill, the California State Legislature and local congressional offices against abortion bans as part of our national reproductive justice work, also engaging with NAPAWF’s We Belong Together campaign on Immigration Reform and its impact on families.

Oakland, Ca

• Re-developed SEAYL (Southeast Asian Young Leaders) program to organize inner city Asian American and minority youth interns around environmental health and city policy.• Established and managed a paid youth civic engagement and policy internship, where youth developed leadership, public speaking and policy advocacy skills.• Collaborated and built coalitions with legislators, organizational partners and community stakeholders to focus on public policy impacting youth.• Co-founded the Contra Costa County Youth Health Coalition (CYHC), a youth-centered and directed group brought together by a coalition of organizations and county health entities that plays a leadership role in addressing health-related issues via policy and advocacy. • Planned, coordinated and co-established an API Women’s Summit for underserved immigrant and refugee women.• Organized curriculum for and ran a Photovoice photojournalism program for Nepali refugee girls at a local high school.• Conducted health access education to underserved immigrant communities--focusing on Nepali, Burma Refugee, Tibetan Asylee, Mongolian and Pacific Islander groups--on behalf of the Affordable Care Act. • Utilized and initiated social media and blogs to connect with youth, and to highlight and publicize organizational work and accomplishments. • Helped connect with the White House Initiative on AAPI’s to address the unmet needs of underserved API communities.• Developed organization’s blog and social media strategy to publicize work with refugee and Asian Pacific Islander communities

Oakland, Ca

• Appointed by Assemblymember Rob Bonta to make recommendations on addressing challenges facing the community. Joining fellow committee members to give feedback and input on the Assemblymember’s current and future legislation. Member of the Human Trafficking subcommittee and Health subcommittee• Serving on the Human Trafficking and Health subcommittees

San Francisco Bay Area

Wrote for Hyphen magazine on political, cultural and historical stories focusing on South Asian American and Muslim American communities.Check out my writings here -> http://hyphenmagazine.com/contributors/nadia-hussain

San Francisco Bay Area

•Selected as an artist and co-curator for the International Museum of Women's revolutionary global online exhibition. This innovative and timely multimedia exhibition was designed to illuminate the experiences of emerging and established Muslim women artists and leaders in order to shift negative perceptions, inspire change, and advance a more insightful awareness of the diversity of Muslim women’s lives. • Authored a poem that was published by The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) in their “Women In Islam” Journal and distributed to women in villages throughout the region as a tool for empowerment.My Muslima page -> muslima.imow.org/content/mother-may-i

Oakland, Ca

• Developed an outreach project for a non-profit English school.• Recruited and managed a team of outreach volunteers from different immigrant communities.• Outreached to refugee and immigrant communities to help them obtain English language and job development skills.• Assisted in the hiring process of administrative staff, including recruitment, interviewing and hiring decisions.

Berkeley, Ca

• Collaborated with university departments and community organizations for programming purposes. • Handled program logistics, office and administrative management.• Provided technical assistance for programs and meetings.• Assisted in planning and facilitating a wide variety of cultural and educational programming.

New Brunswick, Nj

• Provided direct counseling, referral and advocacy services to South Asian women facing domestic and sexual violence.• Represented Manavi to the Center for American Women and Politics’ Ready to Run Campaign, an effort to involve women of color in civic matters, as well as empower women to run for public office.• Advocating policy on national, state and local levels through Manavi’s involvement with SAALT (South Asian Americans Leading Together).• Established a Youth Violence program to address issues of interpersonal violence amongst college students at Rutgers University.• Initiated and supervised a summer legal internship for a Public Interest law student in collaboration with a non-profit immigration law organization.• Participated in national reproductive rights efforts against abortion restrictions.• Conducted cultural competency and domestic violence trainings in New Jersey for courts, law offices and organizations. • Organized and planned Manavi’s Aarohan conference along with Manavi staff.

Princeton, Nj

• Co-hosted 30 hour-long television marathon. Interviewed various guests, introduced bands and hosted a cooking segment.• Guest hosted episodes of the political cable access television show “Breezin with Bierman”.

Edison, Nj

• Provided assistance to staff lawyer at a non-profit law office. • Learned legal processes to provide assistance with information on SSI and social security benefits offered to families and individuals below the poverty level. • Recorded notes and minutes on client calls. Attended international disability conferences on behalf of the office.

Greater New York City Area

• Served as project manager for the Women’s Initiative in Spirituality and Equality (WISE). • Assisted the Executive Director in the planning and setting up of WISE events. • Oversaw the organization of the June WISE conference to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in conjunction with the Alliance of Civilizations at the UN. • Maintained the main office database through Microsoft Outlook and Excel spreadsheets.

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Nj

-Worked at Rutgers Political Science Department's Center for Peace and Democracy-Collected and categorized the Internet resources section of the FACE human rights project. -Conducted Internet-based surveys and web research. -Developed an online human rights bookstore, Translated information from Bengali to English. -Maintained organization of the office and managed student employees.

Greater New York City Area

• Provided assistance to Bangladeshi delegates within the mission and within UN headquarters.• Attended meetings at the United Nations on behalf of Bangladeshi delegates regarding economic and humanitarian issues. • Collected co-sponsorship agreements from member states supporting resolutions of the government of Bangladesh. • Assisted the Permanent Ambassador from Bangladesh.

Greater New York City Area

• First intern at the New York Consulate office. • Provided translation to non-English and English speaking visitors. • Participated in processing official visa and passport forms. • Maintained contact with the Consul General and Bangladeshi Ambassador on issues relating to Bangladeshi-American relations.

Trenton, Nj

• Conducted outreach efforts to community and political leaders to maintain contact with constituencies.• Maintained the largest computer database of cultural and media contacts in the Governors office.