Kholoud Khoury is a Palestinian-American who lived in Zababdeh near Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank, an occupied territory. She grew up in the West Bank. In 2002 she immigrated to the United States of America after the second intifada (uprising).

Ms. Khoury earned her Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Illinois at Chicago in Chicago, IL. Before coming to the United States she studied at the Universite de France-Comte in Besancon, France, and received a diploma in French as a second language.

She served as a teacher for elementary classes at the Latin Patriarchate School in Zababdeh, Jenin; a translator for Doctors without Borders in Hebron, Palestine; Executive Assistant to the Palestine Red Crescent Society in Al-bireh, Palestine; and she served at The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in Chicago, IL.

She lives in a Chicago suburb, and she is a member of the working group on the Middle East of the Metropolitan Chicago Synod, ELCA.