Salma Hamamy

Salma Hamamy is a Palestinian-American student activist and recent graduate from the University of Michigan. She served as the President of Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), the university’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, for three years and served as the advocacy chair for the Muslim Students’ Association. Her organizing efforts revolved around having consistent actions that put pressure on the University to divest, mobilizing various departments and groups to form one of the largest student coalitions in the nation, establishing the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, protesting at graduation, establishing state-wide educational programming across all major Michigan universities for Palestine Awareness Week, and more! Outside of student activism, her studies involved pursuing a double major in Biology, Health and Society (BHS) and Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) with a double minor in Law, Justice and Social Change (LJSC) and Arabic in the college of LSA