Linda Sarsour Speaks About Arab American Assistance Programs To A Colleague

NEW YORK - JUNE 23: Linda Sarsour the program director for the Arab American Association of New York, speaks with a colleague on June 23, 2006 in New York. Linda, an ethnic Palestinian, was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Following the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington, DC, she realized Arabs and Muslims would soon come under attack in the US Linda's organization provides legal, medical and social advice for the 300,000 Arab-Americans living in the New York City area. Linda speaks to local and federal politicians, the city's Board of Education and New York neighborhood religious groups. She is married and considers herself modern compared with other ethnic Palestinian and Arab women. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)