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About the Participants
Mohamed Gula
Mohamed Gula is CEO of Emgage, a national nonprofit organization that works to strengthen Muslim American civic engagement and political participation. He has held leadership roles at Emgage since 2017, including National Director of Organizing and Executive Director of Emgage Virginia, and has led initiatives including Million Muslim Votes, Emerging Leaders, and the Muslim Civic Table. Gula also serves on the board of the Virginia Coalition of Immigrant Rights. His work focuses on civic engagement, youth empowerment, human rights, and social justice.
Zeyneb Sayilgan, Ph.D.
Zeyneb Sayilgan, Ph.D., is the Muslim Scholar at ICJS, where her research centers around Islamic theology and spirituality, Christian-Muslim relations, and the intersection of religion and migration. Her personal experience of growing up in Germany as a child of Kurdish Muslim immigrants from Turkey informs her academic work and engagement in interreligious learning. Sayilgan is an affiliated faculty at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria and also a Fellow Emerita in Peace and Reconciliation at its Center for Anglican Communion Studies. She has a Ph.D. in Theological and Religious Studies from Georgetown University, a Master’s degree from Hartford Seminary in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, and a B.A/M.A. in Islamic Studies and Public Law from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.