Dina Omar is a lecturer at UC Berkeley who teaches Palestinian poetry. She is a doctoral candidate at Yale University in Anthropology and Gender and Women’s studies. While studying for her Masters degree at Columbia University, Dina was part of the ad hoc organizing committee that founded National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP). Between 2012 and 2014 she served on the National Executive Board of the Palestine Youth Movement (PYM) and was part of establishing the Ghassan Kanafani Writing scholarship. Dina was a student and teacher-poet for June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program from 2006-2009.