Lenna Zahran Nasr

Palestinian

Lenna Zahran Nasr is a Palestinian/Lebanese organizer from Jerusalem & Bethlehem born and raised in exile on occupied Tickanwa-tic land (Central Texas). She believes that Indigenous sovereignty and Global Indigenous Solidarity is a key component of principled anti-imperialism and the creation of a better world.

She brings experience in building out student and movement institutions focused on advocacy and agency from the grassroots. Her specialty and passion is political education pedagogy and movement culture.

Since 2017, she has played a critical role supporting the student movement at UT Austin and Nationally across the so-called United States. She regularly leads political education workshops for Arab community on Indigenous struggle on Turtle Island, Puerto Rican struggle, Black struggle, and the role of youth and students in the Palestinian struggle, and demilitarism. She is a proficient researcher and has been recently featured in articles written in both English and Arabic.

In Austin, Lenna brings together individuals and activists from a plurality of backgrounds to build a strong movement for Palestine. While she is an organizer with deep roots in her local community, she also brings experience from International struggles and relationships.

In 2018, she co-organized and participated in the historic Indigenous Delegation to Palestine, which brought Palestinian youth living in exile on Turtle Island and young Indigenous land-defenders and water-protectors (Kumeyaay, Yaqui, Diné, Kānaka Maoli) together to Palestine.

In 2019, she was honored to be invited on The Red Nation’s delegation to Dinétah and Pueblo Territories, which explored themes of border towns, extraction, food deserts, mancamps, MMIWG2+, kinship, culture, and sovereignty.

In 2021, she traveled to Cuba on a delegation with the Interfaith Community Organization with a focus on grassroots community coalitions whose focus ranged from cultural work and advocacy to health infrastructure.

Lenna has a robust background in legal and compliance. She is detail oriented and driven by a passion of social justice for all people, rematriation / Land Back and tackling Environmental Racism at its roots. She believes that, when the people organize they can win.

She currently serves as a lead organizer with Palestinian Youth Movement.