Nadia Roumani and Rhonda Roumani

Rhonda Roumani is a Syrian-American journalist who has written about Islam, the Arab world, and Muslim American issues for more than two decades. She is the author of the middle-grade novel Tagging Freedom and the picture book Umm Kulthum: Star of the East. Visit her at rhondaroumani.com.

Nadia Roumani is a social entrepreneur, coach, consultant, and cofounder of the University of Southern California's American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute and Stanford University's Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative. She is also a Senior Designer with Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.