Karaman Mamand
S.J.D (Doctor of Laws) is an educator, researcher, and activist.
He holds (S.J.D) in International Legal System Studies and LL.M in US Legal System Studies at Golden Gate University (GGU), School of Law. Also holds Master of Laws (M.A) from University of Koya, College of Law in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq as well as Bachelor of Laws (B.sc) degree in Law, University of Salahaddin, College of Law.
After graduation from Salahaddin University, he was hired as a legal assistant and administrative manager at the Koya University. Meanwhile, he taught law courses at Koya Technical Institution in the legal administration department, then as a teaching assistance at Koya University College of Law-Currently Department of Law, Faculty of Humanity and Social Science, where he taught law courses, performed researches, and monitored student projects. He also contributed to building the library and became director of the law library. In addition, He brought thousands of books in Kurdish, Arabic and English language to the library. Also, founder & chief executive of Hesara organization.
Throughout these projects, He has strengthened his research, writing, and analytical skills as an educator, researcher, and activist. He has also gained valuable experiences and skills working with NGOs, volunteering, and serving as managing director of various community-based projects. He has researched and led workshops on several subjects including human rights violations and honor killings in particular.
In addition, he believes working with nonprofit is a positive step towards the change for better world that all share same rights, so, he engaged and established idea of non-profit organization to carry this concern and struggle that facing human right. In order to follow his vision, he used his professionalism in policies on the community development process and human rights specially women rights. His engagement and hard work to develop ideas for better world for everyone will not stop; he has hope for brighter future.
Sanan Moradi
Sanan Moradi is a PhD candidate in political geography, at the University of Oregon. His research interest includes territory, nationalism, the Middle East, Kurds, and Iran
Arica Maure
Arica is an Auditor in the University of Kansas Office of Internal Audit where she specializes is federal regulatory compliance. Prior to joining the University of Kansas in May of 2016, Arica worked for the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC. While working for the State Department, Arica primarily managed grant funds for projects in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan with additional projects in Tunisia and Palestine. She holds an M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from the School of International Service at American University and a B.A. in Political Science and International Studies from the University of Kansas. In addition, she has had extensive training in intercultural dialogue facilitation. In addition to her native English, Arica speaks Spanish fluently and speaks Arabic at the high beginner/intermediate level.
Rikan Dlzar
An exceptional young leader, who is fully devoted to the community work, he received his undergraduate degree in Physics from University of Salahaddin. After graduation, over 9 years’ experience teaching to a wide range of student age groups. As an educator and activist, he has been contributing significantly, and managing NGOs.
Amadou Bocoum
Shanté Chavis
Many years of extensive leadership and strategic planning experience . Her mission is to lead our team to reach initiatives to uplift and strengthen communities.
Deniz Ozer
Volunteer, website developer, community, event & programming leader. He earned his B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering and seeking for a master’s degree.
Mohammed Hama Ali
Anthony Mickey
Has 10+ years’ experience consulting in the Financial, Advertising, Insurance and Entertainment Industries. He has done data mining – complex modeling – full project life cycle and data analysis (from exploratory statistics- to statistical models) and technical writing.
He has worked with analytical tool such as R, SAS, SQL (complex- nested queries) and has experience with Data Story telling using Tableau, PowerPoint and creation of Excel Pivot Charts and Pivot Tables. In addition, he has worked and collaborated with teams of various sizes & responsible for multiple projects with varying deliverables.
He is a graduate of the Masters of Science program Information and Knowledge Strategy at Columbia University. His 1st Masters is in Social Research concentration (Applied Sociology, Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis and Research Methods) from Hunter College. He earned his BA degree in Psychology/Minor in Sociology from Fordham University.