Azizah Y. al-Hibri is the founder of Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights and a Professor emeritus at T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond. Her work has centered on developing an Islamic jurisprudence and body of Islamic law that is gender equitable. It also promotes human rights and democratic governance. She began her career as a professor of philosophy. In 2011 President Obama appointed Al-Hibri to serve as a commissioner on the U.S Commission on International Religious Freedom. She is the founder and editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. She has written a lot about women’s issues, democracy and human rights from an Islamic perspective. Her scholarly work has appeared in a variety of publications, including the University Of Pennsylvania Journal Of Constitutional Law, the Harvard International Review, and the Fordham International Law Journal. The aim of Karamah is to provide Muslim women with the essential tools and knowledge to promote and reform in their own communities. She is also a member of the advisory board of various organizations, including the pew Forum on Religion in Public Life, the Pluralism Project at Harvard University and Religion of Ethics News Weekly (PBS). Moreover, she is a member of the Constitution Project’s Liberty and Security Committee.

Al-Hibri received the Virginia First Freedom award from the Council of America’s First Freedom in 2007. She also received the Dr Betty Shabazz Recognition Award for Women in Islam in 2006. She received University of Richmond’s Distinguished Educator Award in 2004. Al-Hibri was also a Fullbright scholar and a Fellow at the National Humanities Center in 2000-2001.