As the Advocacy and Civic Engagement Coordinator, I travel the country and train ordinary Arab and Muslim Americans to conduct local campaigns in their communities on issues ranging from health care and language access, education reform, restoring funding for social services, and addressing heavy handed immigration enforcement.

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His nearly 100 patented creations include a dictionary, a train-switching system and, most recently, a service that turns an ordinary pager into a personal security device.

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Baroness Grey-Thompson would be the first to admit that while she can leave people far behind as she powers down the track, she still cannot get down an escalator to board an inaccessible tube train, and still needs the public's help to do what they regard as very ordinary things.

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