Nada Khader has been active with Women PROUTists since 1989. She currently serves as the Executive Director of WESPAC Foundation, a peace and justice action and educational network that works on a range of issues dealing with social, economic and racial justice. Before joining the WESPAC family, she served as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program in the Gaza Strip and also served for two years as a Fulbright Scholar in Tunisia, North Africa.
She returned to the United States in 1993 and served an additional two years with AmeriCorps, the Domestic Peace Corps, in both North Carolina and Washington, DC. She has been invited to represent the progressive community at the Socialist Scholars Conference, the “Orange Alert” Conference at Sarah Lawrence College, the “Color of War” Conference at Manhattanville College, the Lower Hudson Valley People’s Assembly, Mount Vernon Islamic Center and the Interfaith Council Women’s Luncheon. She has been recognized for her peace and justice work by the American Muslim Women’s Association and was invited to give the Commencement Address at the German School of New York in June of 2004.
