Our Board of Directors:
Dr. Jerry McClelland

Jerry grew up in the mid-western part of the US where she attended college and graduate school. She was a professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota since from 1980 to 2007, when she retired. She has traveled extensively in Europe and has visited, taught, or presented scholarly papers in Pakistan, England, The Netherlands, Taiwan, Jamaica, Botswana, and Zimbabwe, and she taught international students from every continent but Antarctica. She is currently a docent at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis.

Dr. Eric Winkel

 Eric is a Muslim scholar of Islamic law, and especially the work of Muhyiddin Ibn `Arabi. His graduate work is in "South Asia Regional Studies" and "Government and International Studies". He began language study at the International School of Geneva, Switzerland (French, German, and Latin) and continued in Haverford College while studying early Christianity (Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Coptic, Syriac) and the University of Pennsylvania (Sanskrit, Tamil). He has since learned Urdu-Hindi, Dhivehi, Punjabi, Malayalam, and Sinhala. He has teaching experience from the International Islamic University in Malaysia, Quaid-i-Azam University in Pakistan, Central Michigan University in Mexico City and the University of New Mexico. He led a small team in 2000 in creating a charter school in Santa Fe, and in 2001 co-founded Bridge Academy in Las Vegas, New Mexico. He travels extensively and is the author of four academic books, one novel, and numerous academic articles.

Ms Maliha Husain

Maliha was born and raised in Pakistan and now lives in the USA. She has worked in the social development sector for a number of years and has a diverse professional background working with non-profits and on women’s issues. Presently she works for a non-profit. She has traveled in Europe, Asia and Africa. She is a mother of three children, Sadaf teaching at a University and Amar and Samar, twins, in high school. She feels very strongly about human rights, social justice, pluralism and a tolerant, gender-balanced society.