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Rashida James-Saadiya
Rashida James-Saadiya is a cultural organizer and scholar who uses storytelling to connect history and memory to the urgent social issues of the present. Her work is research-based and interdisciplinary, stretching across sociology, social justice, and religion to challenge gender inequality, urban displacement, carcerality, and systemic racism.