JIMENA, a 501(c)3 organization based in San Francisco, California aims to achieve universal recognition for the heritage and history of the one million indigenous Jewish refugees from the Middle East and North Africa and their Mizrahi and Sephardic descendants. Our programs ensure that the accurate history of Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews is incorporated into mainstream Jewish and Middle Eastern narratives in order to create balance in attitudes, narratives, and discourse, about Middle Eastern refugees and the modern Jewish experience.