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Who We Are

"Alone we can do so little; Together we can do so much."

-Helen Keller

We are a team of passionate Jewish and Muslim students from NYC public high schools. Since October 7th, we have felt Antisemitism and Islamophobia rise in our school and online communities, and were first-hand witnesses to the deepening division between the Jewish and Muslim communities around us. As we heard about incidents of hate from our classmates, read about it in our school newspaper, and clicked through dozens of stories and posts rooted in hate posted by those in our school community, we knew our school communities needed change; change that only we could create for ourselves. The Together Project was founded from seeds of hope amidst a fog of hate: hope that we could use the very words and voices we'd been using to further conflict for unity and togetherness instead.

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Maxanne Wallace-Segall

Co-Founder

Co-President

 

 

email ∙ maxanne@thetogetherproject.us

instagram ∙ @maxanne_slaytheday

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Maxanne is a sophomore at Stuyvesant High School. She writes for the opinions section of her high school newspaper, the Stuyvesant Spectator, about finding connection and empathy amidst the Israel-Palestine conflict. Her journalistic and literary work has won 3 Scholastic gold keys, and has been syndicated by youth publishing magazines. Additionally, she's part of the Lower Secretariat of Administration for the Stuyvesant Model United Nations Team, and has won several writing and speaking awards at Model UN conferences across the country. Two years ago, she attended TIMEMUN, a Model UN conference in Israel hosting Israeli and Palestinian teens,  and since then, has sought to find and foster nuanced conversations with people of a range of perspectives and backgrounds. She's been writing and debating politically since the age of five, and hopes to go international relations in college. Alongside her daily large, iced, lattes, and the wonderful Together project Team, she is extremely determined and excited to work towards the Together Project's goals, conferences, and conversations.

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Nabila Rahman

Co-Founder

Co-President

 

 

email ∙ nabila@thetogetherproject.us

instagram ∙ @nabils101

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Nabila Rahman is a sophomore at Stuyvesant High School. She is a Bengali-American and the Muslim vice president of the Together Project. In her freshman year of high school, she was part of the Parliamentary debate team and attended multiple competitions throughout the year. She is very passionate about engineering and has attended several programs during this past summer, including a coding program at Girls Who Code and a robotics and automation program at NYU. In her free time, she enjoys playing the piano and the violin and learning about astronomy. She is extremely interested in helping her fellow members of the Together Project bring peace between worlds that now, more than ever, are divided.

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Rodiyat Salami

Vice President

Rhodi is a junior at the Bronx High School of Science. She is the Muslim Branch Leader and Co-Vice President of the Together Project. Outside of the Together Project, she is involved in programs to help children in underserved communities access higher levels of education. Through these programs she tutors, demonstrates experiments and helps expand their education on areas they're passionate about, particularly math and science. In her freshman and sophomore years of high school, she was a member of the Congressional Debate team and competed throughout the year. In her spare time, she participates in out of school and school-affiliated sports teams and leagues, including volleyball, soccer and track and field in which she has been awarded and received leadership positions. She also participated in the Fieldston Enrichment Program through which she won the Norman Leo Award for Math. She's extremely passionate about her work with the Together Project and providing peers with an opportunity to listen to and talk about different outlooks regarding issues like culture, religion and Israel-Palestine during meetings and conferences throughout the year.

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Lili Sella

Vice President

email ∙lili@thetogetherproject.us

Lili is a sophomore at the Bronx High School of Science. She has attended writing workshops for several years, cohosted an open mic with Nuyorican Poets Cafe and her poetry has received 2 Scholastic honorable mentions. She’s the secretary of her school’s branch of the National Organization for Women and works at the Bronx Science Holocaust Museum, where she helps curate exhibits and lead tours. She’s also an involved member of the Bronx Science Lincoln Douglas debate team, for which she studies and reads philosophy, literature and art relating to different perspectives on history and current events. In her spare time, she plays guitar and talks her friend’s ears off on whatever existential issues pop into her head at 10 PM. She’s devoted to Together Projects goals of highlighting marginalized and diverse perspectives on Israel-Palestine and excited to experience the many conferences, discussions and friendships it has to offer.

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