Margari Hill is an educator, non-profit leader, writer, and culture change strategist. In 2014, she co-founded of Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative (MuslimARC), a human rights education organization. She is also a freelance writer who has been published in How We Fight White Supremacy (2018) Time, Huffington Post, Al Jazeera English, and numerous independent platforms. She earned her master’s degree in History of the Middle East and Islamic Africa from Stanford University in 2006.  Her research includes transformations in Islamic education, colonial surveillance in Northern Nigeria, anti-colonial resistance among West Africans in Sudan during the early 20th century, interethnic relations in Muslim communities, anti-bias K-12 education, and the criminalization of Black Muslims. She is on the board of INKERIJ and serves on numerous multi-faith and multiracial coalitions advancing the causes for marginalized communities. For her work, she has received numerous awards, including Stanford’s 2022 MACA Award, the Council of American Islamic Relation’s (CAIR) 2020 Muslim of the Year award, the Khadija bint Khuwaylid Relief Foundation Lifetime Humanitarian Award in 2019, the Big Heart Award in 2017, and MPAC’s 2015 Change Maker Award. She has given talks and workshops at various universities and community centers throughout the country. Topics she has presented and lectured on include:

• Anti-Racism and Social Justice
  • Critical Islamophobia
  • Inter-ethnic Relations in Muslim Communities
  • Diversity in Muslim Communities
• History and Islamic Studies
  • Spread of Islam in Africa
  • Social Institutions in the Ottoman Empire
  • Luqman in the Qur’an
• Gender & Islam
  • The Practical Spirituality of Muslim Women
  • Triple Minority: Black American Muslim Woman
• Contemporary Issues in Muslim Communities
  • Criminalization of Black Muslims
  • Intersections of Islamophobia and Racism

 For media inquiries and interviews, contact margari.hill@gmail.com. You can follow her on social media:

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