About Us
Muslim students across New Jersey often have to fight, school by school, for accommodations that should already exist: a place to pray on Fridays, and recognition of Eid as a day their faith requires them to be absent. Prayer For All exists to make that fight easier and less isolating, by giving students the templates, guidance, and precedent they need to make the case at their own school. Success isn't a single win, it's these accommodations becoming standard practice at schools across the state, carried forward by students themselves rather than depending on any one person or team.
Lead researcher for Prayer For All, finding the data and precedent behind every request and running things behind the scenes.
Leads social media coordination, community engagement, and awareness efforts for Prayer For All.
Leads outreach for Prayer For All, with a focus on community service and civic engagement.
How We Started. Prayer For All began through the NJMVP and Ali Leadership Institute Youth Leadership Program, where our team set out to solve a problem we'd seen firsthand: Muslim students without a Friday prayer space or recognized Eid absence at their own school. After proving the model worked at one New Jersey public school, we realized the process could be documented and handed off, so any student, at any school, could run the same playbook without needing us to do it for them. What started as one school's win is now something we're actively building out across the state.
