Pam Bailey
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
My heart belongs to Palestine
I first traveled to the West Bank in 2007 and was hooked. By December 2009, I had left a high-level corporate job to live in the Gaza Strip, where I taught social media for citizen journalists, reported for the news services and consulted with indigenous NGOs. I also produced a series of video vignettes that profiled non-violent resisters in Gaza, which I showed on a three-week, cross-country speaking tour. Today, I serve nonprofits with my communications skills while advocating for Palestine.