SOUND VISION FOUNDATION - Key Persons

ALTAF KAISERUDDIN

Job Titles:
  • Treasurer of the BOARD of DIRECTORS

AMIN NADEEM

Job Titles:
  • Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS

DR. MUHAMMAD KHALID RIAZ

Job Titles:
  • Secretary of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
  • Director and Secretary of the Sound Vision Foundation Inc.
DR. MUHAMMAD KHALID RIAZ is a Director and secretary of the Sound Vision Foundation Inc. Dr. Khalid Riaz is listed among the 500 most influential Muslim personalities all over the world for his contribution in the development sector to alleviate poverty in Pakistan. A practicing cardiologist in Illinois, he is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians. Dr. Riaz has served as President Medical Staff, Sherman Hospital, Elgin, 1993. He was a member of the board of director of Sherman Hospital, Elgin 1990-1993. The board oversees the organizational and financial management of this 350-bed hospital. Dr. Riaz has served as treasurer, secretary, and president of the Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America (APPNA) 1989-1992. Dr. Riaz is the founding president of the Human Development Foundation (HDF) 1997-present.

Eissa Albinali

Job Titles:
  • Accomplished Young Author, Scientist

HANNA EL-AMIN

Job Titles:
  • Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS

IMAM ABDUL MALIK MUJAHID - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board
  • Chairman of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
IMAM ABDUL MALIK MUJAHID is chair of the board. He is an Imam and an award-winning author and producer. He is the founder of Sound Vision, as well as Chair-Emeritus of the Council for a Parliament of World Religio n. He is the former Chairperson of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago. He has also served at the Faith Advisory Council of the Democratic National Committee, as well as on the Credentials Committee of the DNC in 2008. As the national coordinator of Bosnia Task Force, USA in the 1990s, he successfully led efforts in collaboration of National Organization of Women (NOW) to declare rape as a war crime. Imam Mujahid was selected eight times as one of the 500 most influential Muslims. More information about Imam Mujahid can be found here. His Twitter handle is @MalikMujahid

KHURSHEED MALLICK

Job Titles:
  • Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS

MIRIAM TISDALE

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
TAUFIQ AHMAD is a Director. He is currently a Software Development Manager at Motorola in the area of GSM/GPRS/UMTS Software Development, supervising 27 software engineers. He is an expert in the area of Global Standards for Mobile Communications (GSM), telecommunication call processing and protocols. He has led thinking retreats of Islamic weekend school teachers. MIRIAM TISDALE is a director, as well as a volunteer producer for Sound Vision's Muslim Network TV. She began working for Sound Vision as a volunteer, helping to organize one of our programs in South Carolina. She also participated in one of our training camps. She is a senior in college.

PROF. AMINAH MCCLOUD

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
DR. AMINAH MCCLOUD is a director and a host of Muslim Network TV. She recently retired as a professor of religious studies and director of the Islamic World Studies program at DePaul University in Chicago. Her academic work illuminates the intersection between the African-American community, women, and Islam in the 20th and 21st centuries. A Fulbright Scholar, McCloud is the author of African American Islam, A Question of Faith for Muslim Inmates, Silk: The Textures of American Muslim Women's Lives, Transnational Muslims in American Society. She is currently working on Owning Islam: African American Islam in the 21st Century. Dr. McCloud is also a board member of Radio Islam, the Institute for Social and Policy Understanding, and the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project.

TAUFIQ AHMAD

Job Titles:
  • Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
TAUFIQ AHMAD is a Director. He is currently a Software Development Manager at Motorola in the area of GSM/GPRS/UMTS Software Development, supervising 27 software engineers. He is an expert in the area of Global Standards for Mobile Communications (GSM), telecommunication call processing and protocols. He has led thinking retreats of Islamic weekend school teachers.