Ram Allah Zain Al-Zen Amen
Ram Allah Zain Al-Zen Amen e/em/ey (formerly known as Zachariah Barghouti) is a 37-year-old dog dad living in Occupied Huichin (formerly known as the Bay Area). This point of consciousness was raised in the colonial “Little Palestine” of Lenapehoking (aka northern New Jersey) and in Muscogee lands and streams (aka the Heart of Dixie, or Birmingham, Alabama). The pursuit of happiness took him out to the West Coast as a young adult in his late teens and twenties, and to Mana-hatta (Lenape lands, aka New York, New York) in his thirties.
Ram Allah was birthed in the continental upper northeast African region, in his ancestral homeland of Syria-Palestine, and is from the beautiful village of Aboud, along the hill country of Samaria and Judea on the West Bank of the Jordan River, most recently occupied by the ideas of the State of Israel over the last century. His family fled the violence of occupation when he was 2 to immigrate to Turtle Island (aka the United States) through colonial permission(s).
For over 10 years, he served as an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement USA Bay Area and New York Branches. He's served in various capacities and roles in the movement for social justice.
Currently, his life’s work is to ideate for movements and serve communities with liberatory evaluation, facilitation, organizing, data, analysis, information and strategic planning for systemic global change. He holds a BA in International Relations from San Francisco State University, an MA in International Relations and an MS in Measurement and Evaluation from American University, Washington DC.