Negeen Sadeghi-Movahed is the Midwest Regional Director for the National Womxn of Color Collective and was the Past Chairwoman of the American Bar Association's Law Student Division. Negeen recently graduated from American University's Washington College of Law (AUWCL) with her J.D. At AUWCL, she was a member of WCL's Mock Trial Honor Society and a student attorney for the Criminal Defense Clinic. Negeen received her B.A. in Political Science from UCLA. She is a passionate social justice advocate, human rights activist, and community organizer. Negeen has held leadership positions at United Nations Association of Orange County, Network of Iranian Professionals of Orange County, Iranian Student Group at UCLA, Iranian-American Women Foundation, and Southwest Asian & North Afrikan community organization in Los Angeles. In 2013, she was nominated for the Rising Star award at the OC Global Women’s Conference and received an honorable mention. Upon attending UCLA, Negeen was highly involved in student government representing UCLA in state-wide and nation-wide conferences; further, she was elected UCLA’s first ever Transfer Student Representative for the Undergraduate Student Association Council. Negeen has presented at numerous conferences on education and international relations. Her analysis on feminism, education policy, race relations, and international affairs have been featured on Washington Post, Manoto TV, Mic, KIRN 670 radio, FEM Newsmagazine, ABC’s Nightline, BBC World Service's Newsday, and Al Jazeera America. Negeen was a fellow for People for the American Way's "Young People For" program, where she researched socio-economic status, political impact, and tactics for empowerment of Middle Easterners in the United States. Negeen was a graduate fellow for the Ansari Fellowship Program for the 2018-2019 year.
Farnaz Fassihi is a reporter for The New York Times writing about Iran. She was previously a Senior Writer and war correspondent for The Wall Street Journal for 17 years. She covered wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Syria and Lebanon as well as uprisings in Iran and across the region. She specializes in investigative and enterprise projects, such as an investigation for the NYT into Iran's Me Too movement, the massacre of ethnic Arabs in Mahshar in 2019 and at the Journal leading a global investigation into the role of western technology in censorship and surveillance. She has won more than a dozen national journalism awards and has been nominated seven times for a Pulitzer Prize. She is the author of the book, “Waiting for An Ordinary Day,” about the war in Iraq. Fassihi was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2014-2015. She was the recipient of an Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2017.
Sara Omatali, formerly an Iranian journalist specializing in arts and culture, is now based in the U.S. She was the first woman to go public with allegations of sexual misconduct in Iran's MeToo movement. Her allegations against artist Aydin Aghdashloo had a domino effect and inspired dozens of women to gain the courage to break their silence. She is now an education content developer and curriculum designer with experience working for non-profit organizations.
Neda Moridpour is an artist, Professor of the Practice at Tufts University and a certified advocate counselor focusing on domestic violence and sexual assault. She has worked with the US National Crisis Hotline, Peace Over Violence in Los Angeles and co-founded the official Twitter account for the MeToo movement in Iran. She has been documenting the allegations to educate and advocate to empower women to break their silence. Her artistic practice crosses disciplines to create dialogue and mobilize communities.
