About Us

MuslimARC works to CREATE anti-racism programming and education resources, CONNECT a network of multi-racial and multi-faith leaders through digital media, storytelling, and dialogue, and CULTIVATE solutions through leadership development and organizing.

Since launching on February 10, 2014, MuslimARC has been successfully addressing the intersections of Anti-Black Racism and Islamophobia through regular programming in Detroit and Southern California, in addition to providing regular virtual building spaces and member-led gatherings.

MuslimARC trainers, speakers, and consultants connect with communities across the country, furthering our impact.

As an award-winning organization, MuslimARC leaders continue to make strides in their field and are honored for their contributions including our co-founder Namira Islam who won 2016 Young Leader Award from El Hibri Foundation, Margari Hill who was honored as MPAC's 2015 Change Maker Award, 2016 Big Heart Award, Khadijah Bint Khuwaylid 2018 Humanitarian Award, and CAIR National's Muslim of 2020 Muslim of the Year; and Dr. Aliah Ajamoughli who has conducted award-winning ethnographic research on American Muslim communities.

Our training model with multi-faith groups and multi-racial coalition communities helps identify the intersections of systemic racism and Islamophobia. Within the ecology of today’s progressive movement, MuslimARC provides a unique service to support community leaders and social change organizations in building lines of solidarity across differences.

The MuslimARC Team

Staff

Margari Hill

Margari Hill is the co-founder and Executive Director of Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative (MuslimARC), a human rights education organization. She is also a freelance writer published in How We Fight White Supremacy (2018) Time, Huffington Post, and Al Jazeera English. 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 Advisory Council of Islam, Social Justice & Interreligious Engagement Program at the Union Theological Seminary. For her work, she has received numerous awards including the Council of American Islamic Relation’s (CAIR) 2020 Muslim of the Year award, 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 lectures in various universities and community centers throughout the country.

Dr. Aliah Ajamoughli

Dr. Aliah Ajamoughli, Operations Director of MuslimARC, is an ethnomusicologist, cellist, and community organizer. Her activism is inspired by generations of ancestors committed to naming the injustices of the world, from her multi-generational Euro-American grandmother nicknamed “Mrs. Union” at the elementary school in which she taught to her Syrian father who fled after speaking out against the injustices of the Assad regime. As an artist, she intertwines her community organizing with creative practice. This intertwinement includes performing on Malek Jandali’s Voice of the Free Syria tour in 2014, serving on art boards for exhibits showing Muslim American talent, and conducting award-winning dissertation research about the impact of American Muslim artistry on American popular musics dating back to the 1600s despite the multi-generational Islamophobia our ummah faced. She holds a BM in cello performance from Butler University and a MA/PhD in Ethnomusicology from Indiana University. She graduated from the 2021-2022 AMAL (American Muslim Anti-Racism Leadership) fellowship and is currently a 2022 Muslim Power Building fellow. In her free time, you can find her somewhere in Chicago pleasure reading and snuggling with her dog, whose government name is Lucille Ball but chosen name is “Lucy-fur” (Lucifer).