


Leading up to the US Supreme Court hearing on Trump's travel ban, we'll hear about the orders impact on people from affected, Muslim-majority countries, and how advocacy groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations are responding. On this edition of Making Contact we begin with the story of a woman who was in flight to the US when President Trump signed his first travel ban.
Featuring:
Nisrin Abdelrahman, Stanford PhD student in Anthropology; Zahar Billoo, civil rights attorney and executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, San Francisco Bay Area chapter.
Host: Monica Lopez
Staff Producers: Anita Johnson, Marie Choi, Monica Lopez, R.J. Lozada
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blaizin
Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker
Contributing Producers: Nisrin Abdelrahman, Helvia Taina, An-Li Herring, Eileen Williams
Special thanks to the Stanford Storytelling Project and State of the Human podcast managing producer, Jake Warga.
- KBOO