Noushin Darya Framke is a West Asian Christian whose family is Armenian on one side and Iranian on the other. Noushin’s maternal grandmother walked into Iran in 1915 as a ten-year-old refugee survivor of the Armenian Genocide.

Noushin was educated in Iran at a Presbyterian mission school and in boarding schools in England. She came to the United States in 1978 for college and her freshman year turned out to be the year of the Iranian Revolution.

Noushin served six years as a member of MRTI, Mission Responsibility Through Investment, which advocates for corporate responsibility and socially responsible investing for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s $12B+ pension and foundation funds. Noushin has represented the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) as a shareholder in corporate engagements with companies such as Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard, ITT, J.P. Morgan Chase, and ConocoPhillips. She was in the sub- committee that engaged with corporations on Israel/Palestine in a ten-year process that led to a vote to divest funds from three American companies that profit from Israeli human rights violations: Caterpillar Inc., Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions.

From 2006, Noushin has been a founding-member of PJN, the Palestine Justice Network (thepjn.org) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The national network speaks to the church with a General Assembly mandate to educate Presbyterians on the plight of Palestinians. Noushin has been in the writing and editing teams of all the network’s publications, Cradle of Our Faith, Steadfast Hope and Zionism Unsettled, and the videographer for all the accompanying video episodes. She is co-editor of the network’s study guide, Why Palestine Matters, The Struggle To End Colonialism, as well as part of the writing and editing team for the digital resource, BDS Toolkit by Global Kairos. She is also the co-author of Focus: Palestine, a publication of the WCRC, World Communion of Reformed Churches, the largest umbrella organization of Reformed Protestant Churches.

Noushin served eight years as an elected member of REAC, Racial Equity Advocacy Committee, a permanent committee of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). She is a member of GACEIR, the Presbyterian Church’s Committee on Ecumenical and Inter-religious Relations. She is also a member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advisory Board of Presbyterian Women.

She was part of a 35-person Presbyterian solidarity delegation who went to stand witness in Palestine in February 2024.

Noushin is a Presbyterian elder and lives in New York City and New Jersey. She and her husband of 42 years have 2 adult daughters.