"Infertility & The Spriritual Winter" by Sameerah Siddiqui (12/27/19)

Khateebah Sameerah Siddiqui delivers the 60th khutbah for The Women's Mosque of America on December 27th, 2019. In this powerful khutbah, Sameerah Siddiqui speaks to us about how to navigate through times when your prayers go unanswered, with a special emphasis on dealing with infertility. She courageously removes the stigma from a usually taboo topic in order to provide more community support for those who need it most.

Bio: Sameerah Siddiqui is a Senior Advocacy Advisor at Oxfam America, a global humanitarian and advocacy organization. She has held a variety of roles in her time at Oxfam, from campaigning on the political drivers of poverty, such as a lack of corporate accountability in our global food system to building external relationships with American faith communities. She currently leads the organization's campaign response to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. 

Sameerah grew up in the Inland Empire and after finishing her degree at UC Davis, she moved to Los Angeles to learn faith-rooted and community organizing with Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice and the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy. 

Sameerah is currently based in Washington, D.C. but her husband is convinced that they'll make SoCal home again.