Leadership
Jaime "Mujahid" Fletcher
Is originally from Colombia, South America and grew up in Houston since age 8. He is an Entrepreneur, John Maxwell Certified Leadership Coach, International Public Speaker, Multimedia and Film Honors Graduate of the Art Institute of Houston and founder of the global leading Non-Profit Organization IslamInSpanish. He has obtained specialized certifications in Filmmaking from Hollywood’s Screenwriting Doctor Robert McKee and was invited and accepted into Harvard University’s HIVE Global Leaders Network program in Boston. He is a media analyst on Univision, Telemundo, CNN in Spanish, and others. He is one of the few Latino Muslims to accept Islam in the U.S. just months before September 11th.
He then studied the Arabic language and Quranic studies in Cairo, Egypt’s Fajr Institute and has learned classical Islamic texts from diverse national and international scholars of note. His most recent accomplishment is opening the 1st IslamInSpanish Centro Islamico in the U.S. a year ago where over 50 people have embraced Islam after experiencing a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive vibrant community striving to normalize the image of Islam in America.
Sandy “Sakinah” Gutierrez
is the Co-Founder and COO of IslamInSpanish. She is a convert of Colombian descent, married to her childhood friend, Jaime "Mujahid" Fletcher, Founder & CEO of IslamInSpanish. Graduate with Honors from The Art Institute of Houston in the field of Graphic Design. At the age of twenty three she started her own award winning Advertising Agency & Creative Studio "FocusPoint Studios" along with her husband. As she helped brand many Muslim owned business in Texas, she also was the creative brain behind the branding of the now world-renowned educational non-profit organization "IslamInSpanish".
Since the inception of "IslamInSpanish" she has played many roles with the organization such as Creative Director, co-Producer for their many TV shows, Administrator, Interior Designer for Andalucia Media Arts Center (the organization’s production studio) and the newly opened IslamInSpanish Centro Islamico in Houston and the IslamInSpanish Dallas Outreach Center opened in April of 2018. Sakinah now sits as COO of IslamInSpanish. She is a mother of three beautiful intelligent girls which she says is her best and most rewarding creative work in progress.
Imam Isa Parada
Born in New York and raised in Houston, Isa Parada was an altar boy at his family’s Roman Catholic parish and after converting to Islam he went on to graduate from Madina University from the faculty of theology and is now an Imam.
His family roots from El Salvador allow him to effectively educate Latinos about Islam as one of our IslamInSpanish instructors locally and nationally while serving as a bridge between the general Muslim community and Latinos. He has played a unique role in developing educational programming as an instructor as well as a community counselor.