McCaw is the government affairs coordinator for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a nonprofit that seeks to empower the roughly 7 million Muslims in the United States and enhance Americans’ understanding of the Islamic faith. How do you help increase Americans’ understanding of Islam?

We have a number of initiatives, including our Koran campaign, in which we hand out free Korans to community leaders and politicians, as well as religious leaders and local city councilmen and women. We also have a library program where we give a package of books to libraries that request information on Islam, from the Koran to “Islam for Dummies.”