Edina Leković
Edina Leković is an American advocate for Muslims. She helped found and gave the inaugural sermon at the United States' first women's mosque. She is known for her media appearances as an expert on Muslim Americans. Biography. Lekovic is a Montenegrin American whose parents are of Bosniak ethnicity that came from Bar, Montenegro in the former Yugoslavia. She completed her graduate work in Communication at Pepperdine University and received her B.A. in American Literature & Culture. In 1998, she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Bruin. She worked with the Muslim Public Affairs Council from 2004  to 2014 as an advocate on behalf of American Muslims in news media, interfaith, community, and pop culture spaces. From 2000 to 2004, she served as Managing Editor of The Minaret, an American Muslim magazine. In 2006, she was a co-founder and board member of NewGround, an organization to foster communication between American Jews and Muslims. In 2009, she was listed in the inaugural list of The 500 Most Influential Muslims.