Tomorrow's Women in LA

Aya, a Palestinian from the West Bank, and Ya'ara, a Jewish Israeli from the Gaza border, were Tomorrow's Women campers together in 2008. Now, accomplished activists, they reunite - alongside Merna, an Arab Israeli alum - to share what's happening on the ground in their home at this pivotal moment and their visions of hope and peace.

The event is presented by LA Supporters of Standing Together.

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Ya’ara and Aya first met in 2008 at Tomorrow’s Women’s peacebuilding summer camp for teenagers in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Now, 17 years later, these courageous leaders are defying stereotypical relationships between their people to stand together with one voice: peace and justice for all people of their homeland.

Ya’ara, a Jewish Israeli raised on a kibbutz on the Gaza border, is a project manager for the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, running a program that brings together Jewish Israelis and Palestinian Arabs to develop leadership, team building, and conflict management skills through sports. Aya, a Palestinian from Nablus, West Bank, is pursuing her Master’s in Conflict Resolution at a prestigious university in the U.S., with a focus on global human development. She also works with a team researching war crimes, victim recognition, and military analysis. The old friends are also joined by budding activist Merna, an Arab Israeli who grew up in the Galilee and is attending medical school at Tel Aviv University.

For the last 22 years, Tomorrow’s Women, a 501(c)(3), is the only cross-border peacebuilding organization in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank that exclusively focuses on investing in the leadership skills of young women as a pathway to sustainable change and peace. We’ve trained ~700 young women from Israel, Palestine, and the U.S. through leadership, compassionate communication, and conflict resolution programs between ordinary citizens that address historical traumas and complex grievances, rebuild relationships, and result in more durable and robust coexistence. Our hundreds of alumni work in fields such as activism, education, journalism, law, social justice, public speaking, medicine, and refugee work, creating an endless ripple effect throughout the region and beyond.

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