Heboh Pejabat AS Tampil Berjilbab di Gedung Putih, Ini Sosok Sameera Fazili
Heboh Pejabat AS Tampil Berjilbab di Gedung Putih, Ini Sosok Sameera Fazili
WASHINGTON DC, iNews.id – Pejabat perempuan AS mencuri perhatian publik lantaran tampil mengenakan jilbab saat memberikan pengarahan di Gedung Putih. Dia adalah Sameera Fazili, yang saat ini menjabat wakil direktur Dewan Ekonomi Nasional AS.
Penampilannya membuat netizen terpesona. Momen langka itu berlangsung tatkala dia berbicara kepada wartawan terkait perintah eksekutif Presiden Joe Biden untuk mengatasi kekurangan chip elektronik dan masalah rantai pasokan penting lainnya, Rabu (4/2/2021) lalu.
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Heboh Pejabat AS Tampil Berjilbab di Gedung Putih, Ini Sosok Sameera Fazili (inews.id)
Fazili adalah putri imigran Kashmir. Dia merupakan jebolan Universitas Harvard dan Sekolah Hukum Yale.
Fazili diangkat menjadi pejabat penting di jajaran pemerintahan baru Amerika Serikat, bulan lalu. Sesuai namanya, Dewan Ekonomi Nasional bertugas menangani proses pembuatan kebijakan ekonomi dan memberikan saran kebijakan kepada presiden.
Warganet di media sosial menyambut baik penampilan pertama Fazili sebagai pejabat di pemerintahan Biden. Tak sedikit dari mereka menafsirkan kehadiran pejabat Muslim yang mengenakan jilbab itu sebagai simbol pergeseran dari warisan kefanatikan mantan Presiden Donald Trump yang berhaulan kanan dan anti-Muslim.
“Sebulan setelah Trump pergi dan kami memiliki seorang saudara perempuan berjilbab yang memberikan konferensi pers di Gedung Putih. Para Islamaofobia pun menangis,” ungkap Direktur Eksekutif Dewan Muslim Hubungan Islam Amerika (CAIR) Cabang Washington, Imraan Siddiqi, dikutip laman The New Arab, akhir pekan ini.
Sementara, seorang pengusaha teknologi Muslim yang menjabat penasihat senior di Departemen Luar Negeri AS antara 2011–2014, Shahed Amanullah, juga mengungkapkan ekspresi serupa. Dia menggambarkan penampilan Fazili menunjukkan bahwa AS telah berubah menjadi lebih terbuka hanya dalam sebulan.
Editor : Ahmad Islamy Jamil
Siapakah Sameera Fazili ?
Biden Aide Sameera Fazili’s Parents Wanted Her To Be A Doctor, She Left Medical School To Join Yale
by Tahir Bhat
SRINAGAR: In order to reach White House, Kashmir origin Sameera Fazili had to face what every second bright Kashmiri student continues to confront the issue of career. Daughter of doctors, she was under pressure to choose the family medical line.
Sameera Fazili
“Sameera gave in and was admitted to one of the four medical schools that had offered her a seat,” Rouf Fazili, Sameer’s uncle said. “She gave two years to the medical school and then left it to join the Yale.”
Sameera was picked by Joe Biden to be the Deputy Director of National Economic Council. Mother of three, she will be focusing on manufacturing, innovation and domestic competition in the Biden administration.
She is the daughter of Dr Mohammad Yusuf Fazili and Dr Rafiqa Fazili. They migrated to the USA in 1970. Dr Yousuf, the first cousin of Dr Ali Jan, is a surgeon and Dr Rafiqa, a pathologist, is sister of Rouf Fazili, the former Executive Director of Jammu and Kashmir Bank. Both her parents graduated from Government Medical College, Srinagar.
Sameera Fazili with Joe Biden, the new US President
Sameera, Rouf said is the second eldest of four siblings including three sisters. Of them two are doctors and one teaches.
“She was born in the US but she loves Kashmir,” Rouf said. “She has frequently travelled to Kashmir and has spent a lot of time here. Last time she came to attend her cousin’s marriage.” Rouf said she understands Kashmiri but feels a lot of difficulty in speaking. “My mother who nursed her as the kid would tell me that she used to tell her– Gatch Shoung (go and sleep now)”. Her mother and mother-in-law, both are Kashmiris.
President Obama meeting Sameera and her mother in the White House
During her Kashmiri visits, she has been extensively visiting Kashmir especially the downtown, the home of her parents. “She visited JK Bank headquarters countless times. She would also go to SKIMS quite frequently to see how the healthcare systems work,” Rouf said. “One year, she went to Bangladesh and studied the Grameen Bank structure for many months. She was into these things that nobody in her immediate family was interested because most of them are in the medical line.”
Ms Fazili has a law degree from Yale Law School and bachelors of arts in social studies from Harvard College. Ms Fazili started her career as a clinical lecturer at Yale Law School’s community and economic development clinic, where she helped start a community development financial institution (CDFI) Bank and a local anti-foreclosure initiative, and expanded the clinic’s work to international microfinance. Besides, she worked at ShoreBank, America’s first CDFI bank. Her work in finance has spanned consumer, housing, small business, and microfinance.
Sameera Fazili with her uncle Rouf Fazili
This is Ms Fazili second stint in the White House. In the Obama administration, she served as a senior policy adviser at the White House’s National Economic Council where she covered retirement, consumer finance, and community and economic development. Besides, she worked at the Treasury Department on issues of domestic policy ranging from community development financial institutions (CDFIs) to housing finance to small business finance, and then as a senior adviser to the undersecretary for the international affairs where she served as chief of staff. Her second stint at a senior position came after her stint at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta where she was Director of engagement for the community and economic development.
Born at Williamsville New York, the Fazilis’ were Buffalo-based immigrants. She later moved to Georgia with her husband and three children.
Ms Fazili, as already reported is the second Kashmir origin expert to get into the Oval Office as President Biden’s team. Earlier, Aishah Shah was picked by Biden for a key role for the White House’s Digital Strategy Team. She would work as a Partnerships Manager at the White House Office of Digital Strategy under Rob Flaherty, Director of Digital Strategy.
Raised in Louisiana, Shah previously served as digital partnerships manager in the Biden-Harris Campaign. She currently serves as an advancement specialist for the Smithsonian Institution. Prior to this role, Shah worked as an assistant manager on the Corporate Fund of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, supporting the first-ever expansion of a presidential memorial.
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