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Young Innovator in Coexistence: Radeyah Hack
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Radeyah Hack is a Regional Director of Americans for Informed Democracy and the founder of AID’s chapter at Stony Brook. She was one of more than a hundred leaders in September of 2006 that hosted a Hope not Hate town hall meeting on her campus to raise awareness about how the U.S. and the Muslim world can work together to stem growing mutual hatred. But Hack did not stop with a single event. She decided to turn that positive experience event into a yearlong campaign for coexistence on campus. This campaign brought together the Muslim Students Association, Hillel, and other religious groups on campus to dialogue on the common values these groups shared and then to take constructive action together to honor those shared values. Hack said the yearlong effort created “a setting for Muslims and Jews on campus to realize their common humanity.”
- The Young Innovator in Coexistence award will be presented by Zeeshan Suhail, a Board Member and Regional Director for Americans for Informed Democracy. Zeeshan now works at the United Nations after recently completing a Master's degree in International Relations at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He was elected to the Student Government of the CUNY Grad Center in 2006, and was also an active member of student government at his undergraduate school, Queens College-CUNY, where he was the first Pakistani and the first Muslim to be elected Vice President in the 35 years of student government history. His work has been published in Q-News (Britain), The World Scholar (New York), Pakistan Post (New York) and The Nation (Pakistan).
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