About Aziza

Aziza Hasan, named an influencer by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, is the executive director of NewGround: A Muslim Jewish Partnership For Change. She has extensive experience in program management and coalition building. An experienced mediator and conflict transformation practitioner, she has co-facilitated with multiple groups. Aziza’s work has been featured on Ozy, Yahoo News, MSN, Public Radio’s “Speaking of Faith” with Krista Tippett, the United States Institute for Peace, Arabic Radio and Television, and the LA Times. 

Her two years of AmeriCorps service gave her hands-on experience in community organizing and group problem-solving. She earned the “President’s Volunteer Service Award” in 2006 under President George W. Bush. Aziza served on President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships from 2015 to 2016, and the Executive Service Corps recognized her with the “Megan G. Cooper Leadership Award” in 2017. Aziza currently serves on Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Interfaith Advisory Council and is a volunteer mediator with the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office.

In this episode of Along The Seam, we heard clips from testimony from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive. Watch the full interviews here:

Hana Seckel-Drucker (Dubova), recorded in 1998

Photo by: Kajsa Göransson

"If we can be curious in the face of

fear, we can finally get to a place of

possibility. How are you going to get

fascinated so that you can go beyond

the fear?" - Aziza Hasan

Rachael Cerrotti with NewGround

Take a listen to this episode flipped. Aziza interviews Rachael about her family history as it is told in her memoir, We Share The Same Sky