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ADL Philadelphia Virtual Pre-Concert Reception December 12, 2021 @ 7:00PM

  • November 29, 2021

Please Join ADL Philadelphia on Sunday, December 12th at 7:00 p.m. for the Virtual Pre-Concert Reception as we honor Khadidja Issa and U.S. Representative Susan Wild (PA-07) with the presentation of their Courage Awards.

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Event co-chairs Carole Landis, Tracey Diamond and ADL Philadelphia invite you to join our community to celebrate before ADL In Concert Against Hate.Prior to the national concert, which begins at 8pm, join ADL Philadelphia virtually at 7:00pm as we honor Khadidja Issa and U.S. Representative Susan Wild (PA-07) with this year’s Courage Award.

Khadidja Issa, arrived in the U.S. in September 2015 from war-torn Sudan at the age of 18. Though she was told that her education would begin at the local high school, when she attempted to enroll, she was told she had aged out and to seek employment. After pressing the Pennsylvania school system further, she was given the option of being deferred to Phoenix Academy, a notoriously authoritarian, juvenile detention–like facility with a nasty reputation as a school for “at-risk youth.” Frightened and fearful of the academy, Khadidja and her fellow refugee students decided to fight the district to afford them the proper education they deserved.

Congresswoman Susan Wild has been a member of the Lehigh Valley community for more than 30 years. Susan built a successful legal practice while raising her two children and became the first woman to be appointed as Allentown City Solicitor. In November 2018, Congresswoman Wild was elected as the first woman to represent Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congresswoman Wild is committed to fighting for quality, affordable health care for all, an economy that benefits every member of our community, and reforming our political system to return government to the American people.