Ahmad Jitan is a community organizer at IMAN, where he leads the Corner Store Campaign in addition to supporting IMAN's other organizing and advocacy efforts.

Like many other Palestinians and children of refugees, Ahmad has called many places home. An immigrant to the United States from a young age, he was raised predominantly in the U.S. South, whose culture of resistance and resilience he carries with him to this day. Ahmad has worked as an educator and community organizer advocating for young people, racial justice, and immigrant and refugee rights in Durham, NC; Brooklyn, NY; Beirut, Lebanon; and Nablus, Palestine.

Through IMAN's Corner Store Campaign and broader Food Ecosystems work, Ahmad hopes to transform Chicago's corner stores from sites of mere transaction or exploitation to ones of solidarity and healing and a model for racial and economic justice. /////