About

Heather Akou

Associate Professor, School of Art, Architecture, and Design, IU

Email:

hakou@indiana.edu

Feisal Al-Istrabadi

Director, Center for the Study of the Middle East, IU

Email:

fistraba@indiana.edu

John Bailey

Station Operations Director, WFIU

Edward E. Curtis

William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts, IUPUI

Email:

ecurtis4@iupui.edu

Nur Amali Ibrahim

Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies and International Studies, IU

Arsalan Iftikhar

Senior Research Fellow, Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University

Hilary Kahn

Director, Center for the Study of Global Change; Assistant Dean, School of Global and International Studies, IU

Rosemary Pennington

Assistant Professor of Journalism, Miami University

Derya Doğan

Content & Outreach Coordinator
Interfaith America Co-project Leader

Derya has been with the Muslim Voices since summer 2019. She is also one of the Interfaith America co-project leaders and runs the Muslim Voices Instagram account. She is a double-major Ph.D. candidate in Education Policy Studies and Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures. In her research she focuses on contemporary times of Islamic education through the lens of comparative religious K-12 and international Islamic universities. She is considering a third-degree to her Ph.D.; studies in Coffeeology!

Rachel Tagoulla

Interfaith America Program Assistant

Rachel Tagoulla is a 3rd year PhD student in the department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. She is a founder and treasurer of Muslim Women at IU and president of Al-Eidaan student organizations. She is also president of the Women’s Committee of the Islamic Center of Bloomington. She is currently the Interfaith America Program Assistant for Muslim Voices in the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Center for the Study of Global Change.