99 Clay Vessels: The Muslim Women Storytelling Project

Several years ago, I worked for an interfaith organization in Baltimore County, where I was hired because I am Muslim and have extensive experience teaching and writing curricula on Muslims and Islamophobia. Despite having enthusiastically embraced my resume and vision, once in the job, they encouraged me and other Muslim colleagues to pander to the basest stereotypes about Muslims, including the accommodation of explicit anti-Black and anti-Palestinian discrimination by the Board and Executive Director, along with other forms of corruption and malfeasance. When the two Muslim staff requested mediation, we were retaliated against and eventually forced out of the organization.