New Leadership Orients Zaytuna Toward Community Earlier this year, the Zaytuna College Board of Trustees sought to fill the role of vice president. This key figure needed to be someone with a deep understanding of Zaytuna’s mission, proven leadership skills, and strategic vision.
initiatives, from plans to invest in community education through producing a robust catalog of distance learning courses, to the development of its upper campus into a destination—for all visitors—that represents the beauty of the Muslim civilization, to the growth of a dynamic membership program for the College’s most consistent supporters.
In September, President Hamza Yusuf announced that the Board had found the ideal candidate: Dr. Aisha Subhani, a former member of the Board. Dr. Subhani is This fall also saw the addition the longtime director of the of another new member of the Deen Intensive Foundation, College’s leadership team, the an organization committed to long-time San Francisco Bay teaching the sacred sciences Area community leader and through intensive retreats such as teacher Sidi Feraidoon Mojadedi, the well-known annual summer who joins Zaytuna to manage Rihla program. She is also the its events and its enthusiastic director of Sandala, Inc., a volunteer base. Sidi Feraidoon, pioneering platform for teaching also a student of the poetry of Islam through publishing, online Dr. Aisha Subhani, Rumi and Persian poetry more Vice President learning, and podcasts. Her generally, brings with him vast combination of experience is organizational experience, from perfectly suited to Zaytuna’s institutional needs founding and managing the Rumi Bookstore, and future plans. to directing the annual Sacred Caravan trips and Grand Mawlid celebration. “I have been blessed to work with Dr. Aisha for over twenty “I have often quipped with some years and know well her sincere seriousness that Feraidoon is the work on behalf of our faith and real founder of Zaytuna,” said the great gifts she brings with President Yusuf in a statement her,” said President Yusuf in the to staff. “He started the Islamic announcement. “As a trained Studies School in Hayward that and practicing ER doctor, she is became the Zaytuna Institute, used to triaging and maintaining which then, with the addition equilibrium in the most stressful of Imam Zaid, became the situations and adroitly managing Sidi Feraidoon Mojadedi, Seminary, and then in 2009, the any crisis she finds herself in. We Event and Volunteer Manager College. Feraidoon has many are extremely fortunate that Dr. years of events management and Aisha has decided to commit has done so much volunteer work her exceptional talents to helping all of us take for the College over the years that he comes on Zaytuna College to the next level.” board with our indebtedness and gratitude.” Dr. Subhani arrives at Zaytuna as the College sharpens its focus on engaging the broader community through many public-facing
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