Almost one quarter of the people in the world are Muslim. But how much do we really understand Muslims here in America? Maysa Kergaye, a Muslim woman who calls Utah home, but has lived in multiple countries and US states, opens up the conversation about what it means to be Muslim, her experiences as a Muslim woman in America , and particularly as a minority in Utah.

In this unit, Maysa brings two plus decades and hundreds of presentations, many in school classrooms, on being Muslim in America. Her favorite part of any presentation is answering students’ questions, like why she wears a headscarf, does being a Muslim woman mean she does not have equal rights, does she do missionary work, how does she feel when people associate her religion with violence, how does she go swimming, etc.

Maysa frankly answers all of these questions and more, inviting us in and sharing her stories of interfaith community, friends, families, the history of Islam, Muslim beliefs and ideas, all the while reminding us that we all have so much in common.