Raquel Evita Saraswati, Activist who claimed Arab, South Asian, Latin descent, outed by her own mom: ‘White as driven snow’

NY POST ^ | February 21, 2023 | By Yaron Steinbuch

[dennisw]

The senior inclusion officer of a Philadelphia-based social justice group has been lying about her ethnic identity for years — claiming she is a woman of color despite being “as white as the driven snow,” her mother alleges.

Raquel Evita Saraswati, 39, who was born Rachel Elizabeth Seidel, is the chief equity, inclusion and culture officer of the American Friends Service Committee, which fights “violence, inequality and oppression,” the Intercept reported.

The Muslim activist, who has access to files of the progressive Quaker group’s workers and volunteers, has claimed for years to be of Latin, South Asian and Arab descent.

But her mother, Carol Perone, said Saraswati is actually of British, German and Italian descent.

“I call her Rachel. I don’t know why she’s doing what she’s doing,” Perone told the Intercept. “I’m as white as the driven snow and so is she.”

She added: “I’m German and British, and her father was Calabrese Italian. She’s chosen to live a lie, and I find that very, very sad.”

[robowombat]

Yes
Oskar Pierre Castro, a human resources official who helped AFSC hire Saraswati, was told she was a “queer, Muslim, multiethnic woman,” according to the news outlet.

[Nifster]

I don’t understand why people want to live a lie

[representativerepublic]

Another liberal, self-hating Jew

[Wiser now]

I wonder how much time and money it takes her to put on that that ethnic face every morning?

[Libloather]

Identifies as off-white.