Farah Marie Mokhtareizadeh, 23, of Persian descent, is a student at the University of Pennsylvania and active member of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. She lives with the Camden Community House in Camden, NJ.
Farah worked with the group Voices in the Wilderness for three years and made two trips to Iraq, first as a member of the Iraq Peace Walk, and then as a member of the Iraq Peace Team in the fall of 2002. Soon following her time in Iraq Farah traveled to Israel and Palestine where she worked with an international humanitarian organization hoping to help facilitate peace initiatives between Israelis and Palestinians.
Early in 2006 Farah spent three months in Damascus studying Arabic and attempting to get an idea of the situation of the Iraqi refugee community. In the Summer of 2006 Farah traveled with three other Voices workers to Lebanon where they reported on the situation of the civilian population during the Israeli-Lebanese war.
Farah has worked with Voices projects all over the U.S. and Europe - including as a member of the Geneva Fast for Economic Justice in Iraq co-sponsored by Jubilee Iraq. She also served as an organizer for the trial of the Pitstop Ploughshares in Dublin, Ireland who were later acquitted in their third trial in the summer of 2006. The Pitstop Ploughshares acted to nonviolently disarm U.S. planes being used to transport troops and war material in preparation for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Farah is a member of the Board of Directors for the Word and World School, an ecumenical seminary project dedicated to cultivating biblical literacy and nurturing and instructing movements for social transformation.
Additionally, Farah loves the arts and is an experienced actress, dancer, writer, painter, and photographer.
