Author, Equity Consultant, and Holistic Justice Activist
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About
Dr. Sara Kamali is an author, an equity consultant, and a holistic justice activist.
Dr. Kamali’s work as an equity consultant centers on driving organizational change to transform practices and cultures within nonprofits, corporations, K-12 schools, and institutes of higher education.
A first-generation American woman of color, Dr. Kamali is passionate about striving against oppression, especially food and housing insecurity, lack of access to health services, and ableism.
Current Work:
Dr. Kamali is the author of Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists Are Waging War against the United States published by University of California Press. In the first and only book to directly compare White nationalists and militant Islamists in the United States, Dr. Kamali examines their histories and networks as well as their self-described beliefs, grievances, and rationales for violence.
In Homegrown Hate, she also examines and addresses how interlocking institutions of power oppress the many while maintaining systems of privilege for a select few. She defines this approach as “holistic justice”, which moves beyond antiracism to anti-oppression in order to redress interlocking inequities at the axis of systemic racism by contextualizing history to cultivate empathy and understanding, and networking across marginalized identities to achieve solidarity.
Research Area Keyword(s):
equity; justice; public policy; White nationalism; militant Islamism
