
MacArthur Fellows Program
Rami Nashashibi
Community Leader | Class of 2017
Confronting the challenges of poverty and disinvestment in urban communities through a Muslim-led civic engagement effort that bridges race, class, and religion.
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November 16, 2020
"Shuttered Englewood School Will Get New Life As Hub To Help Formerly Incarcerated People"
Block Club Chicago
Rami Nashashibi, 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Related Grantees: Inner-City Muslim Action Network, Teamwork Englewood
Rami Nashashibi, 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Related Grantees: Inner-City Muslim Action Network, Teamwork Englewood
November 2, 2020
"New Life for an Old School in Englewood Sets a Standard for All Chicago"
Chicago Sun-Times
Rami Nashashibi, 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Related Grantees: Inner-City Muslim Action Network, Teamwork Englewood
Rami Nashashibi, 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Related Grantees: Inner-City Muslim Action Network, Teamwork Englewood
October 26, 2020
"Fired Buffalo Police Officer Who Contends She Stopped Another Cop from Choking a Man Finds New Support — In Chicago"
October 26, 2020
"‘Horrendously Vandalized’ CPS School — Shuttered in 2013 — Transforming Into Housing, Health Center"
Chicago Sun-Times
Rami Nashashibi, 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Related Grantee: Inner-City Muslim Action Network
Rami Nashashibi, 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Related Grantee: Inner-City Muslim Action Network
June 15, 2020
"Chicago’s Arab American Store Owners Face Reckoning in Wake of George Floyd Killing"
Chicago Tribune
Rami Nashashibi, 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Related Grantee: Inner-City Muslim Action Network
Rami Nashashibi, 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Related Grantee: Inner-City Muslim Action Network
June 12, 2020
"After Floyd’s Death, a Reckoning for Immigrant Store Owners"
Associated Press
Rami Nashashibi, 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Related Grantee: Inner-City Muslim Action Network
Rami Nashashibi, 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Related Grantee: Inner-City Muslim Action Network
May 27, 2020
"In Chicago Lawn, IMAN ‘Doubles Down’ to Combat Virus Fallout"
WTTW
Rami Nashashibi, 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Related Grantees: Chicago Community Foundation, Inner-City Muslim Action Network
Rami Nashashibi, 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Related Grantees: Chicago Community Foundation, Inner-City Muslim Action Network
March 30, 2020
"Foundations, Nonprofits Act Swiftly to Contend with the Coronavirus"
Chicago Sun-Times
Rami Nashashibi, 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Related Grantees: Inner-City Muslim Action Network, Teamwork Englewood, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago
Rami Nashashibi, 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Related Grantees: Inner-City Muslim Action Network, Teamwork Englewood, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago
August 13, 2019
"Southwest Side Bungalow Provides Shelter from Street Violence"
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