Staff & Board Staff NIAC Board NIAC Action Board Community Council Staff JAMAL ABDI President NADIA ASGARI-TARI Government Relations Associate RYAN COSTELLO Policy Director DONNA FARVARD National Organizing Director SARA HAWRAMI Operations Manager HAMID JAHANGARD Advancement Director MITRA JALALI SENIOR POLITICAL ADVISOR ETAN MABOURAKH Digital Associate ASSAL RAD Research Director 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. SIOBHAN COLEY-AMIN Board Chair Attorney, Venable LLP MASOUD LOGHMANI Fundraising and Nominating Officer Business Executive MAZIAR ZIA Finance Officer Finance Manager ARDAVAN BADII Founder and President, The Bullion Bank RUBY DEHKHARGHANI Plastic Surgeon PAYMAN JARRAHY OB/GYN, New York Hospital LADAN MANTEGHI Chair, Georgetown Business for Impact Initiative NIAC Action Board MARYAM ATTARPOUR Program Manager, the Family Caregiver Alliance SIOBHAN COLEY-AMIN Attorney, Venable LLP MASOUD LOGHMANI Business Executive LADAN MANTEGHI Chair, Georgetown Business for Impact Initiative SHAYAN MODARRES Civil rights activist and attorney SARAH SAKHA Humanitarian Aid and Financing reform, International Rescue Committee MAZIAR ZIA Finance Manager, Warner Media LLC Community Council HANIEH JODAT National Director of Progressive Democrats of America-Middle East Alliances MARYAM JAMSHIDI Assistant Professor of Law, University of Florida NAZITA LAJEVARDI ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AND ATTORNEY, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 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