New director for AFSC
Joyce Ajlouny appointed general secretary of AFSC
Palestinian-American Quaker Joyce Ajlouny has been appointed as the next general secretary of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).
She is currently employed by Friends United Meeting as the director of the Ramallah Friends School in Palestine, where she has led a diverse staff of over 170 educators and administrators for the past thirteen years. Prior to this she worked in international development with Oxfam and various United Nations agencies.
Phil Lord, clerk of AFSC’s board, said: ‘Joyce shares a deep commitment to AFSC’s peace and social justice mission and the values that guide our work. She appreciates that conditions of injustice and violence are closely linked, and embraces the important intersectionality of AFSC’s international and US work.’
Joyce Ajlouny said: ‘I am honoured and humbled to accept this opportunity to help lead AFSC into its second century of working to achieve lasting peace through active nonviolence and the transforming power of love.’
‘I am driven knowing that the future will be a more just and compassionate one when we join together to address social and political injustices, poverty, oppression, and racism, wherever they may be.’
Marisa Johnson, the FWCC Europe and Middle East executive secretary, said: ‘Joyce and I have worked together for some years in supporting a small Quaker service to Palestinian children in a refugee camp near Ramallah. I am delighted to see Joyce’s appointment and wish her well in this new challenge.’
Joyce will succeed the current director, Shan Cretin, in September.
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