Ahmad Jitan
Director of Organizing and Advocacy | IMAN
Ahmad Jitan is a community organizer, poet, and educator based in the South Side of Chicago. He is currently the Director of Organizing and Advocacy at Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) where he leads efforts around food sovereignty, health equity, police accountability, and youth leadership development.
Like many other Palestinians and children of refugees, Ahmad has called many places home. An immigrant to the United States from a young age, he was raised predominantly in the U.S. South, whose culture of resistance and resilience he carries with him to this day. Ahmad has worked as an educator and community organizer advocating for young people, racial justice, Palestinian solidarity, and immigrant and refugee rights in Durham, NC; Brooklyn, NY; Beirut, Lebanon; and Nablus, Palestine.
For Ahmad, the process of seeking justice is as much a spiritual practice and a healing practice as it is a political one. It is these shared practices and the transformative relationships that arise from them that motivate Ahmad to continue the fight for a better world.
Ahmad Jitan is a session presenter for the Design as Activism Symposium.