Staff & Board

Staff

JAMAL ABDI

President

RYAN COSTELLO

Policy Director

DONNA FARVARD

National Organizing Director

NILOFAR GANJAIE

Deputy Executive Director

SARA HAWRAMI

Administrative Assistant

HAMID JAHANGARD

Advancement Director

ETAN MABOURAKH

Digital Associate

ASSAL RAD

Senior Research Fellow

SINA TOOSSI

Senior Research Analyst

NAGHAM SABAH

Finance and Administration Director

MYRIAM SABBAGHI

Community Organizer

EHSAN ZAHEDANI

Community Relations Manager

Board of Directors

NIAC is steered by a volunteer Board of Directors made up of leaders from across our community.

LADAN MANTEGHI

Chair, Georgetown Business for Impact Initiative

ARDAVAN BADII

Founder and President, The Bullion Bank

PAYMAN JARRAHY

OB/GYN, New York Hospital

SIOBHAN COLEY-AMIN

Attorney, Venable LLP

MASOUD LOGHMANI

Business Executive

RUBY DEHKHARGHANI

Surgical Resident, Harvard Medical School

MAZIAR ZIA

Finance Manager, Warner Media LLC

Board of Advisors

Prominent individuals with a wide range of knowledge and expertise who help provide strategic advice.

REZA ASLAN

Award-winning author

AMBASSADOR THOMAS R. PICKERING

Fmr. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

AMBASSADOR JOHN LIMBERT

Fmr. U.S. Ambassador

THE HONORABLE WAYNE GILCHREST

Former Congressman, Maryland

THE HONORABLE JIM MOODY

Fmr. Congressman, Wisconsin

JUAN COLE

Professor, University of Michigan

DR. FARIDEH FARHI

Independent Scholar, University of Hawai’i

DR. AHMAD KARIMI-HAKKAK

Founding Director, UMD Center for Persian Studies

ALEXANDER PATICO

Co-founder, NIAC

AHMAD SADRI

Chair of Islamic World Studies, Lake Forest

NIAC Action Board

LADAN MANTEGHI

SHAYAN MODARRES

Secretary (Interim)

Community Council

Maryam Jamshidi

Assistant Professor of Law, University of Florida

AVIDEH MOUSSAVIAN

DIRECTOR OF FEDERAL ADVOCACY, NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER

REZA ASLAN

Award-winning author

JUAN COLE

Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History

FARIDEH FARHI

Independent Scholar

BEHROOZ GHAMARI TABRIZI

Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

KEVAN HARRIS

Assistant Professor, UCLA

HODA KATEBI

Writer and Community Organizer

JOHN LIMBERT

Former U.S. Ambassador

SHIRIN SAEIDI

Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville