About: dana
- Dana Al-Ebrahim is the Middle East and North Africa Regional Program Manager responsible for Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. At Vital Voices she manages two multi-country programs that aim to support women’s social, economic and political progress in the region. Through these programs, she is able to foster public-private partnerships and corporate social responsibility initiatives that focus on family violence, women’s health and economic empowerment.
Prior to joining Vital Voices, Dana taught Modern Standard Arabic at the University of Arizona, while writing her Master’s thesis on women’s rights and political participation in Kuwait. Using this research, Dana recently published an article on the history of the Kuwaiti women’s movement titled, “Political Rights: A Brief Look at the Kuwaiti Women’s Movement.”
In 2006-07, she was a student of advanced Arabic at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) at the American University in Cairo. Dana also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Jordan, where, from 2000 to 2002, she taught English at an all girls’ school, in addition to implementing a lunch program for needy students and developing a summer camp to enhance and reinforce students’ use of English.
Dana holds a M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Arizona and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Boston University.
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