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Nada Khader has been the Executive Director of WESPAC Foundation, a peace and justice action and educational network, since May 2001. She is responsible for running  the day-to-day operations of the non-profit organization that has served the region since 1974. WESPAC works on a range of issues dealing with social, economic and racial justice, and is especially concerned about promoting a just resolution to the various conflicts in the Middle East.

Before joining the WESPAC family, she served as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program in the Gaza Strip and also served for two years as a Fulbright Scholar in Tunisia, North Africa. She returned to the United States in 1993 and served an additional two years with AmeriCorps, the Domestic Peace Corps, in both North Carolina and Washington, DC.

As WESPAC Foundation Director, she has been invited to represent the progressive community at a variety of colleges, universities and community groups. She organized an important workshop at the US Social Forum in Detroit in 2010 on "Building Black and Arab Solidarity". She also helped organize the women's track at the recent US Palestinian Community Network Conference in Chicago and serves on the Steering Committee of the national anti-war coalition UNAC. She has been recognized for her peace and justice work by the American Muslim Women’s Association and was invited to give the Commencement Address at the German School of New York in 2004.