About Me
I'm a communications professional and facilitator, with a background that spans strategic communications, community building, and creative work across the social impact sector.
Most recently, I spent two+ years at J-PAL MENA — first as a Policy and Communications Associate, then as a Communications Associate — where I led digital campaigns, developed outreach and editorial materials, directed video content, coached speakers, and built internal communications frameworks. Before that, I worked as an editor, writer, and translator, co-authoring a book chapter as a UN Volunteer and translating socially-focused archive interviews with the AUC Library.
I hold a dual bachelor's in International Business and Development Economics from The American University in Cairo, graduating with a 3.9 GPA. I'm a certified facilitator through Yellow Vs. Blue's Facilitation Tactics Certification Program, and my background also includes leadership training through the Student Leadership Institution, a short filmmaking workshop at the Jesuit Centre for Arts, and systems thinking training through Oxford's Map the System competition.
Outside of organizational work, I founded "Ekteshafat Daily": a reflection-based peer community where I host guided dialogue circles, facilitate workshops on emotional awareness, creativity, and passion pursuit, and produce content to extend those conversations beyond the room. It started as something personal and grew into something I now bring into venues, creative spaces, and organizations as a facilitation offering.