Hebh Jamal, Amy Goodman & Steven H. Jaffe

Teaches at Magnet Training Center

Hebh Jamal, now a first year college student, emerged as a young leader in the fight against Islamophobia in 2015 at the age of 15 after a New York Times article profiled her fears and experiences of harassment. Since then, she has co-created the first ever City-Wide Youth Council on School Integration run by IntegrateNYC. She is also currently the Muslim American Society Youth Director of New York and Vice President of her college's Students for Justice in Palestine.

Amy Goodman (moderator) is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,400 public television and radio stations worldwide. Her books include New York Times bestsellers Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016); The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope (2012); and Breaking the Sound Barrier (2009).

Steven H. Jaffe (introduction) is a historian and curator at the Museum of the City of New York. In addition to Activist New York: A History of People, Protest, and Politics (2018), his books include New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham (2012); and Who Were the Founding Fathers? Two Hundred Years of Reinventing American History (1996).