A Conversation with Full Potential members Sara Azmoudeh, Janelle Jajou, and Gamze Sanli

<p>SWANA collective members Ankine Antaram and Soraya Zarook learn about and from Full Potential, a transnational, anti-colonial project working to empower female agency, created by SWANA women for SWANA women. You can find Full Potential on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/full__potential/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> and at their <a href="https://www.full-potential.info/" target="_blank">website</a>. Our guests today are Sara Azmoudeh (Founder and Director), Janelle Jajou (Executive Director and Contributing Writer), and Gamze Sanli (Art and Activism Director and Contributing Content Creator). They discuss the creation of Full Potential and several of its projects, including the upcoming <a href="https://www.full-potential.co/" target="_blank">Full Potential Marketplace</a>, which aims to connect female artisans in the SWANA region with markets in the West. We also engage <a href="https://www.full-potential.info/post/facing-burnout-as-a-swana-creator-by-samaa-khullar" target="_blank">Samaa Khullar's recent blog post</a> <a href="https://www.full-potential.info/post/facing-burnout-as-a-swana-creator-by-samaa-khullar" target="_blank">"Facing Burnout as a SWANA creator,"</a> where Samaa shares the difficulty of witnessing Israel’s continued colonial violence against Palestinians while navigating the exhaustion of advocating for and educating others via social media platforms where they face censorship.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Sara Azmoudeh</strong> (she/her) is a first-generation Iranian-American, based in Northern California. In 2018, she graduated from UCLA with a BA in philosophy. After finishing undergrad, she took a position with Rebuilding Alliance (RA), an NGO dedicated to Palestinian property rights and humanitarian aid. As Full Potential's director, Sara has launched a series of projects and collaborations with other SWANA groups and individual activists in informational and relief campaigns, in addition to supporting female small business owners, artists, and musicians that share the same values for the