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Steering Committee

Ruby Amatulla

Ruby Amatulla graduated from Carlson School of Management of University of Minnesota in Business and Management. She worked with 3M and Champion International as internal and management auditor for several years before starting her own business. She ran the business for many years. Recently she became a fully devoted activist for the cause.

Iffat Khan

Dr. Iffat Khan is a pathologist by profession. A U.S. citizen originally from India, she has been in the USA for 34 years. Dr. Khan's social activism led her to co-found the Texas Muslim Women's Foundation (TMWF), a non-profit organization dedicated to the empowerment of Muslim women. Dr. Khan served as the Vice-President of TMWF from its inception in 2005 till 2008. She also served on the Finance and Social Services committees, and was the Recording Secretary during this period. She was instrumental in formulating organisation policies and guidelines, and played a key role in organisation of fundraisers and promoting TMWF to the Muslim organisations and community at large in the DFW area. Dr. Khan has a keen interest in promoting the welfare of American Muslims, American society at large, and in fostering a more accurate understanding of Islam.

Matthew Cappiello

Matthew Cappiello is a student and political activist from California, originally of European descent. After graduating from UC Berkeley in 2008, Matthew has decided to devote further energies towards mobilizing and uniting American Muslims towards what Martin Luther King described as "the long and bitter, but beautiful struggle for a new world". This struggle has political, judicial, medical, socioeconomic, and environmental implications, all of which are equally necessary to ensure global peace, justice, and progress. Currently serving as MPJP's Outreach Director, Matthew hopes to utilize the organization to build further support among all Americans for just and humanitarian foreign policy in the Muslim world.

Kamran Cheikh

Graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2009 with a degree in Political Science, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies. During his time at Notre Dame he was President of the Muslim Student Association from 2008-2009 and Co-Coordinator of the Notre Dame interfaith Fellowship. His interests and studies of Political Science and Affairs in the Muslim World ultimately led him to the involvement and contribution to the work of MPJP in hopes that the organization could truly help build successful bridges between the Western and Muslim worlds. He hopes to continue his studies in graduate school on International Affairs,Arabic and Religious studies. Additonally, he currently writes and performs research on pluralism, sociology, politics and Muslim Philosophy for the think tank organization The Deen Research Center.

Reem Elghonimi

Reem Elghonimi is a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Cairo, Egypt. Raised in Texas since the age of 6, while her father completed his PhD, Reem graduated as Valedictorian of her 5A high school. She still enjoys residing in Texas and is currently working on her own graduate studies in the Humanities. For the last 8 years in the north Texas area, she has been the most widely called on female Muslim speaker to teach about Islam’s contributions to world civilization, historical interactions between the Muslim world and the West, and the role of women in Islam. She is dedicated to MPJP’s goal of constructing an optimistic discourse for both Americans and Muslims worldwide for the peaceful resolution of the world’s most pressing issues, which is the necessary preamble to hope and peace in global relations.