Meet the Panelists

Since 2013, Kori Majeed has used her Green Ramadan platform to encourage Muslims to eat mindfully and tread lightly by cultivating sustainable habits during Ramadan. These habits are based on Islamic teachings and principles that call humanity to give all of Allah’s creation their rights.

Kori is a GreenFaith fellow, Master Naturalist in-training, and chair of the Green Team at Masjid Muhammad, the Nation’s Mosque, in Washington DC. She is co-author of the ebook Forty Green Hadith: Sayings of the Prophet Muhammadﷺ on Environmental Justice & Sustainability. Kori is also a 2022 graduate of Bayan Islamic Graduate School with a masters degree in Islamic Studies. 

 Fred has grown with and alongside the members of this exceptionally involved and committed community. He is proud to serve this Jewishly-anchored EPA Energy Star Congregation, which organized early around marriage equality and LGBTQ inclusion, stands with HIAS and those upholding America’s heritage as a nation of immigrants, and offers spiritual strength to those working toward justice and sustainability in our nation and world.

Dr. Bob Simon is a parishioner at St. Camillus Catholic Church in Silver Spring, and is a member of the Care for Creation Committee of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington. He is also a member of the organizing group for Maryland Catholics for Our Common Home, which lobbies each year for environmental legislation at the State level in Maryland.   Bob spent over 26 years in the Federal government as an expert in energy and environmental policy. His positions there included serving as the Principal Advisor to the Director for Energy, Transportation, and Resources in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, or OSTP, under President Obama. He joined OSTP in 2013 after a 20-year-long career in energy and science policy in the United States Senate, including serving as the Democratic Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources from 1999 to 2013.  His work at the committee contributed to the enactment of 426 public laws in the areas of energy policy, public lands protection and conservation, and natural resources management.  In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society, for his contributions to integrating science with public policy. 

Anjali is from Bel Air, Maryland of Indian origin and studied economics and finance at Morgan State University before earning her masters in political economy from Georgetown University and Solvay School of Economics & Management in Brussels, Belgium. While abroad, she consulted on the launch of a patented low-carbon concrete in Flanders and presented research on global energy market reform at the OECD. 

Anjali has advocated climate justice since 2020, lobbying for carbon pricing at the state level with Climate XChange Maryland and federal level with Citizens’ Climate Lobby. Having witnessed firsthand the effects of climate change in Delhi in addition to the DMV, Anjali is passionate about uplifting the voices of other Southeast Asians in the common fight against the climate crisis.

 Rocky Stern is an environmental justice organizer based out of Lenapehoking (NJ/NYC). Before Dayenu, Rocky was involved in student activism at the University of Oregon, and graduated in 2024 with a B.S. in Philosophy and Environmental Studies. When they’re not organizing, you can find Rocky gardening, at a live show with friends, or crocheting with her cats.