• Khurrum Wahid is an attorney based in South Florida. Khurrum was a co-founder of the Florida Muslim Bar Association and its current President. He also created CVA-PAC and Foundation in 2006 and 2007.

  • A.J. Durrani is a senior project manager for Shell Oil in Houston, Texas. He created an organization named CONAC which produced over 26 delegates from the Muslim community in the 2004 Presidential election for the Democrat party. CONAC merged with CVA Foundation in 2009.
  • Nauman Abbasi is a Businessman based in South Florida. He is also the President of Public Relations for The Islamic Foundation of South Florida since 2008. He has been actively working with the youth of South Florida on mobilizing them for various causes such as preventing a garbage dump from being zoned next to a mosque in Sunrise Florida, and he has also organized various interfaith events for The Muslim Community in South Florida. 
  • Zeba Khan was the founder of Muslim Americans for Obama in 2008, which was an online national grassroots movement that garnered the attention of the Presidential candidate himself. Currently Zeba is the Strategic Initiatives Director at the List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies, a nonprofit that aims to help U.S.-affiliated Iraqis successfully resettle to the U.S. and a virtual campaign manager with Ashoka's Youth Venture, an incubator for young social entrepreneurs. A former Fulbright Scholar, Zeba holds a joint MA/BA from the University of Chicago in Middle Eastern Studies and a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy. 
  • Arif Ghafur is a Professional Engineer by trade but he is also an active community organizer in Houston. He is involved in local community efforts to enfranchise American Muslims into the political process. Along with several concerned men and women initiated a political grassroots effort Houston which focuses on educating the community on the US political process known as CONAC. CONAC merged with CVA Foundation in 2009.

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EMERGE-USA Activisim

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Emerge USA's volunteers are calling Muslims across the state encouraging them to vote in this year's election.

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Emerge USA mobilized hundreds of Muslims to keep the Sunrise City Council from approving the building of an industrial dump site next to a mosque in Sunrise, FL.

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Emerge USA's coordinated a Statewide Voter Registration Day, where they registered 1,000 voters across Florida.

EMERGE-USA Poll

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