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Anna Piela

Cofounder, Challenging Islamophobia Together Chicagoland

The Rev. Dr. Anna Piela is an ordained American Baptist pastor who serves as a senior writer with the American Baptist Home Mission Societies. Together with her spouse, the Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf, she founded Challenging Islamophobia Together Chicagoland, an interfaith solidarity initiative dedicated to confronting anti-Muslim hate.

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