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Nada Khader has been the Executive Director of WESPAC Foundation, a peace and justice action and educational network, since May 2001.


She is responsible for running all the day-to-day operations of the non-profit organization that has served the Westchester Community since 1974. WESPAC Foundation works on a range of issues dealing with social, economic and racial justice, and is especially concerned about promoting a just resolution to the various conflicts in the Middle East.


Before joining the WESPAC family, she served as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program in the Gaza Strip and also served for two years as a Fulbright Scholar in Tunisia, North Africa. She returned to the United States in 1993 and served an additional two years with AmeriCorps, the Domestic Peace Corps, in both North Carolina and Washington, DC.


As WESPAC Foundation Director, she has been invited to represent the progressive community at the Socialist Scholars Conference, the "Orange Alert" Conference at Sarah Lawrence College, the "Color of War" Conference at Manhattanville College, the Lower Hudson Valley People's Assembly, Mount Vernon Islamic Center and the Interfaith Council Women's Luncheon. She has been recognized for her peace and justice work by the American Muslim Women's Association and was invited to give the Commencement Address at the German School of New York in June of 2004.


Nada Khader is very happily married to Dan Frusinoiu who is from Mizil, Romania. He spent eight years nurturing and caring for abandoned children in Romania at the AMURT Children's Home. He is serving as a New York City teaching fellow in high school mathematics for an underserved school district. Both Nada and Dan practice yoga and meditation and follow a vegetarian diet for ethical reasons. They have a beautiful daughter, Anastasia.

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