Nina Rosenwald is an American political activist and philanthropist. An heiress to the Sears Roebuck fortune, Rosenwald is vice president of the William Rosenwald Family Fund and co-chair of the board of American Securities Management. She is the founder and president of Gatestone Institute, a New York-based right-wing Anti Muslim think tank with a focus on Islam and the Middle East which many accuse, including ADL and SPLC's list of "anti-Muslim activists" of funding Islamaphobic groups and peddling Anti Islamic false rhetoric meant to stoke hatred and fear of the Muslim religion and those who practice it.