Basharat Saleem

Basharat brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the areas of nonprofit management, leadership development, event management and more. Immediately before accepting this appointment, Basharat served as the Director of conferences and events, at the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), nation’s most broad-based journalism organization founded in 1909. At SPJ, he managed the annual convention, journalism awards program, Scripps training programs, and other events. Basharat served as ISNA’s Director of convention, conferences, and special projects for more than 15 years. In this role he oversaw ISNA’s annual convention, conferences and other programs. More importantly, his role gave him deep and critical knowledge of ISNA’s mission, vision, and strategic priorities as well as meaningful relationships and interactions with Muslim communities and leaders giving him the ability not only to contribute to the development of meaningful programs to serve the community but also the skills and relationships to implement them.