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Pam is CODEPINK’s DC Coordinator.

Pam grew up in Chicago, where she began her career as a daily newspaper reporter for The Chicago Tribune. After working in the corporate world, she sought greater meaning and traveled to Palestine for the first time in 2007, when she joined a Global Exchange group in the West Bank and Israel. After that first glimpse of the injustice in Palestine, Pam joined the International Solidarity Movement the following year, spending a month in the West Bank. Her first trip to Gaza was with a CODEPINK delegation for International Women's Day in 2009. She returned two more times, then decided to stay in Gaza and spent most of the next three years there. That's when Pam founded We Are Not Numbers, a youth storytelling program in the Gaza Strip. That project is the subject of a new book by the same name. After Israel deported and banned her in 2016, she co-founded More Than Our Crimes, which advocates against mass incarceration, and worked as a storyteller for other nonprofits.