ADC has 3 job openings in legislation, legal and media
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is seeking applicants for three positions- a Legislative and Policy Coordinator, aStaff Attorney, and a Media Research Consultant. These positions are still open and we are accepting applications as they come! Not a fit for you? Share it with anyone who might be interested!
ADC is going into 2021 strong and we are looking for team members who will help us continue advocating for Arab Americans and the issues that impact our community most. The Legislative and Policy Coordinator will focus on monitoring legislative actions impacting our community and proposing new legislation on issues important to ADC.
The new Staff Attorney will be working on client intakes, amicus briefs and will have a casework they are responsible for alongside assisting in policy work. As for the Media Research Consultant, their main responsibility will be to independently lead a tracking project which documents and records anti-Arab and Islamophobic bias in the media and from elected officials.
Please read the full job descriptions linked in this email and send a resume, cover letter and writing sample to adc@adc.org.
RAY HANANIA — Op-Ed writer, author, radio host, podcaster
Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.
Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).
Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.
Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club “Peter Lisagor Awards” for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.
His writings have also been honored by two national Awards from ADC for his writing, and from the National Arab American Journalists Association.
Hanania is the US Special Correspondent for the Arab News Newspaper, covering Middle East and Arab American issues. He writes for the Southwest News newspaper group writing on mainstream American issues.