UCSD STANDOUT STUDENT: A PROFILE OF MARINA TRINER

Week 3 Name: Marina Triner Year: Sophomore Major: Political Science/Theory Involvement: Organization for Muslim and Jewish Awareness (Founder & President), Alpha Epsilon Phi  (member), Hillel (intern) Originally from Israel and a front-row witness to the Palestine-Israel conflict, Marina Triner has made mutual understanding of the two religions a personal goal. She founded the Organization for Muslim and Jewish Awareness (OMJA)…

A group of Israeli and Palestinian youth activists spoke at UCSD last week as part of an effort to spread a message of peace for their embattled home region and advocate a two-state solution to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The OneVoice movement, an international nonpartisan grassroots organization, stopped in San Diego on April 24 for the final leg of its Southern…