Grace Said is a co-founder of Al-Shabaka. She holds degrees from Duke University and Columbia University’s Teachers College, and has worked for over thirty years as a software training developer. Among her many roles, Grace serves as a board member of Friends of Sabeel North America, as a trustee of Americans for Children of the Middle East, and as an advisor to the Institute for the Study of Christian Zionism.
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Pope Francis has attracted attention for his support of causes the establishment ignores, including the rights of the Palestinian people. And yet the US Catholic Church lags behind other American churches. Al-Shabaka’s Grace Said and Joanna Springer take advantage of the Pope’s US trip to challenge his church to go further.





