Noor Perez
Noor Perez is a student organizer turned disability and LGBT+ educator, community organizer, public speaker, and Internet researcher. He focuses on the intersections of disability, race, gender identity, sexuality, and religion. Noor is on the board as an accessibility leader at Masjid al Rabia, a queer, trans, and woman-centered and led mosque. He is an AAPD Paul G. Hearne Emerging Leader Award recipient and is using the funding to begin the process of making an Easy Read translation of the Holy Qu’ran. This project is deigned to make learning about Islam accessible for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Noor has bylines at Rooted in Rights and the Disability Visibility Project blog, and can frequently be found posting about his beagle, KIBBY, on Twitter at @SnoringDoggo.
