my name is elizabeth dann. i want to thank you for this incredible opportunity to speak to you all about what muslim students have been going through for the past few months. i am a convert to islam. i'm in my final year of law school at nyu. and i'm the outreach chair of nyu's muslim law students association. i'm many other things as well. i'm a descendent of english immigrants who arrived in this country prior to the revolutionary war and irish catholic immigrants, i'm a wife and an expectant mother. the racial profiling that has culminated in the nypd's surveillance of muslim students in and outside of new york city appalls me on all levels of my identity. after finding out about the surveillance without any suspicion of criminal activity of muslim students from yale to the university of pennsylvania, i felt a variety of emotions. i felt fear. fear not only of harm directly caused by the nypd but for what this means about the standing of my community in the eyes of american citizens. fear that we are conside