Mentorship

The AMENDS Mentorship program seeks to create a worldwide network of youth leaders, activists, academics, and professionals.  Through mentorship, AMENDS aims to promote an exchange of ideas and to facilitate the development and actualization of youth leader initiatives. This network will be available to all individuals who participate in an AMENDS conference, increasing its breadth with each batch of new mentees and mentors and bringing together different generations of AMENDS participants.

The 2012 AMENDS Mentors:

Nabeel Aboud-Ashkar
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Polyphony

Danya Alhamrani
Co-Founder, Eggdancer Productions, independent filmmaker

Daniel Armanios
Technology and environmental policy researcher

Rye Barcott
Co-Founder, Carolina for Kibera, author, It Happened on the Way to War

Sarina Beges
Program Manager, Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University

Dr. Iman Bibars
Co-Founder and Chairwoman, Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women, Regional Director, Ashoka Arab World

Elizabeth Buckner
Director of Middle East Projects at Seeds of Empowerment, international education researcher

Marwan Chaar
Co-Founder and Director, The HUB UAE, Co-Founder and Managing Director, FuGu Energy

Dr. Rana Dajani
Assistant Professor of Molecular Cell Biology and Director of the Center of Studies, Hashemite University, Jordan

Brian Fishman
Counterterrorism Research Fellow, New America Foundation, and Research Fellow, Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point

Dr. Sarah Hillyer
Executive Director, Center for Sport, Peace, and Society at the University of Tennessee
Founder, Sport 4 Peace

Anita Husen
Arabic teacher, Middle East Institute

Ben Josseloff
Associate, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Dina Khaled
HIV/AIDS Officer, UNICEF, Cairo

Soumaya Khalifa
President, Khalifa Consulting LLC, Founder and Executive Director, Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta

Sulaiman Khatib
General Director and Co-Founder, Al-Quds Association for Democracy and Dialogue, nonviolence activist and former militant

Dr. Sany Kozman
Member of Middle East and North Africa Network of Harm Reduction Board of Directors, HIV/AIDS researcher

Zvika Krieger
Senior Vice President, S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace

Dania Nassief
Co-Founder, Eggdancer Productions, independent filmmaker

Younes Naoumi
Executive Director, Almostaqbal Institute for Citizenship and Democracy, community activist

Enas Obedallah
Community literacy activist and librarian