At the 2023 ICNA convention in Baltimore — an event that drew more than 40,000 attendees — ITKAN struck up a conversation with community leader Ibad Ar-Rahman. There was no formal pitch and no signed agreement; just a shared belief that the model could work in his community.
That conversation became the spark for ITKAN's largest footprint outside Texas: ten teams spread across six North Carolina chapters, the densest concentration of ITKAN teams anywhere beyond the home state. In a single season, 100% of those teams advanced to the State Championship.
North Carolina is the clearest evidence that the ITKAN model travels — and that the bridge into a new community is often built one conversation at a time.