21 Under 21 Series: Aisha Jitan

Hometown: Holmdel, New Jersey

Major: Global Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies minor

Aisha Jitan aspires to become an International Human Rights Lawyer. Currently, she serves as the Students for Justice in Palestine Co-President and is a Class of 1938 fellow. Aisha is also currently an intern at US Campaign for Palestinian Rights where she helps design political education curriculums.

How does your identity - your culture, queerness, citizenship status, etc. - motivate your work?

“My position as a Palestinian-Muslim-American woman motivates me to work with other marginalized folks to actualize a world that finds strength in difference rather than exploiting it. Living between many different spaces and not quite fitting into one idealized version of who I should be or what I should look like inspires me to contribute to building communities that hold space for those that have structural oppressive powers working against us.” - Aisha Jitan