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| Noor Shawaf | |
Noor Shawaf is joining the Seminary Co-op Bookstores in Chicago, Ill., as director of events and finance. Shawaf is a senior editor for Sixty Inches from Center, a Chicago arts publication and archiving organization that has promoted and preserved the practices of artists across the Midwest since 2010. Shawaf was also the director of special projects and publications with the Social Justice Initiative at University of Illinois at Chicago, collaborating on the Portal Project, a think tank of scholars and activists who are working for racial and social justice. Earlier she was Mellon Diversity Fellow at the University of Chicago Press, where she worked to expand the content and voices represented in academic publishing. She is also a freelance editor of scholarly and arts publications.
Clancey D'Isa, newly promoted director of strategy and development, will continue overseeing the events programming of the stores, as Shawaf acclimates to her new position.