Famous Activists

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Fouad Ajami, Scholar, Academic, Consultant, Activist and Head of Middle East Studies at John Hopkins University. Rabih Aridi, Treasurer and Board Member of Amnesty International USA. Bill Ferris, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities Abdeen Jabara, Lawyer and an activist, former President and founding member of the ADC; Also one of the founders of the AAUG, PHRC, and ACCESS. Ralph Johns, A key white participant in the civil rights movement in the 1960's; encouraged the famous Woolworth 'sit-in' at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina Candy Lightner, Founder of MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) Habib Malik, Scholar, Human Rights Activist and Academic. Son of the late Charles Malik, one of the founding members of the United Nations Charter. Ralph Nader, Ex-Presidential candidate and Head of the Green Party. Nagy Najjar, Executive Director of the Lebanese Foundation for Peace Daniel Nassif, US Representative of the Council of Lebanese American Organizations, Activist, Consultant, Lobbyist. Edward M. Salem, Chairman of the International Maronite Foundation George Salem, Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, National Head of the U.S. Department of Labor Practice & Recipient of Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Camille Sarrouf, Senior partner of the Boston law firm of Sarrouf, Tarricone & Flemming, former president of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. Also passionately and actively involved with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee and was the Chairman of its Board of Governors from 1994 to 1998. Recipient of Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Berge Setrakian, Partner, Law Offices of Whitman and Ransom, Vice President of the American General Benevolent Union and Recipient of Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Paul Michael Wihbey, IASPS Strategic Fellow who specializes in US energy and security in the Persian Gulf and adjacent areas. As a former vice president of the Federal Liberal Party of Canada during the Trudeau Administration, he was a member of the Canadian parliamentary and diplomatic fact-finding missions to Lebanon in the early 1980s. Also serves as a consultant on Middle East security, economics and political issues to US-based multinationals, Congress and the Department of Defense. Stephen P. Yokich, Union leader. In 1995 he became the eighth president of the sixty-year-old UAW, a labor union officially named the International Union of United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. James Zogby, President of the American Arab Institute John Zogby, One of America's preeminent pollsters, keeping tabs on public opinion and other statistics, founder of Zogby International. George Zoghby, President of the Mobile Area Chapter of the National Alliance of Lebanese Americans Joanne McKenna, fourth-generation Lebanese-American, McKenna was president of the National Association of Arab Americans