Faisal has served the not-for-profit sector for two decades, positioning dynamic public and private partnerships that facilitate lasting social impact. His credits include leading the immigrant rights not-for-profit RAICES as Co-Chief Executive Officer; negotiating the merger of Bridges of Understanding into Soliya, a pioneer in Virtual Exchange education; heading the public health and environmental initiative MillionTreesNYC; serving as a corporate relations specialist at the Kennedy Center, where he advised on “Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World” and leveraged special events for expansive sponsorships; and working with Ford’s Theatre, in collaboration with APCO Worldwide and FleishmanHillard, to launch "The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Campaign” — a $60 million effort that reinvented the historic site as an education and leadership campus.

Standing at the intersection of art and administration, Faisal has also executive produced myriad experiential tributes in honor of trailblazing global citizens, including Reem Acra, Heather Headley, and, Julie Taymor, and creative-directed the 70th anniversary celebration of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, featuring opera star Isabel Leonard and immigrant rights activist Jose Antonio Vargas.

A first generation Iraqi American, Faisal has been featured as an expert on immigrant rights and cross-cultural relations in numerous domestic and international publications, including The Guardian, The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, and The Atlantic. He is extensively trained in advanced and anti-oppression dialogue facilitation, and is featured as a social-change activist in Focus on Social Problems: A Contemporary Reader (Oxford University Press, Third Edition, Winter 2026).