Muslims for Just Futures is a grassroots nonprofit that builds power in Muslim communities through collective care, organizing, advocacy and movement-building. The group centers working-class Muslim women, advances a divest-and-reinvest/abolitionist framework opposing the War on Terror and structural and gendered Islamophobia, and runs local programs in the DC–MD–VA region and Chicago while co‑anchoring national movement and policy work.
Divestment from criminalization and the War on Terror, abolitionist policy and community safety alternatives, economic justice including mutual aid and guaranteed income pilots, gender justice and leadership development for Muslim women, anti‑Islamophobia and anti‑racism advocacy, immigrant rights and immigration enforcement reform, civic engagement and voter education.
Primarily funded through individual donations and grassroots/community fundraising supplemented by philanthropic grants, program partnerships, and campaign‑specific fundraising (e.g., community Ramadan drives and partner grants).
Co‑anchor and co‑founder of the Muslim Abolitionist Futures Network; partners and collaborators include Movement Matters, A Wider Circle, Muslim Justice League, Muslim ARC, Queer Crescent, HEART, South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), CAIR Georgia; leadership includes Darakshan Raja (founding executive director).
Non-profit organization (grassroots advocacy and community organizing group)
