Nazanin Ash

Nazanin Ash
Nazanin Ash at the Berkley Centre, November 6, 2019
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBryn Mawr College
Harvard Kennedy School
OrganizationWelcome.US[1]
Known forRefugee advocacy

Nazanin Ash is the chief executive officer of Welcome.US and has previously worked in the US State Department of state in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs leading the Middle East Partnership Initiative and at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on international development and HIV/AIDS.[2] Born to parents who left Iran, she is an advocate for American support for refugees, and was named in Washingtonian's list of the 500 most influential people in Washington, DC, in 2022.[3][4]

  1. ^ Lane, Randell. "Exclusive: Inside the new power CEO club quietly welcoming refugees". forbes.Com. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  2. ^ "Board of Directors Nazanin Ash". Foreign Policy for America. Retrieved October 10, 2022.
  3. ^ "Washington DC's 500 Most Influential People". May 3, 2022.
  4. ^ "Nazanin Ash". Foreign Policy for America.