Nasir Kaihan is a Ph.D. candidate in Education Policy and Evaluation at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University, where he also serves as a Project Manager for the Arizona Refugee Career Pathways program for Education for Humanity under the International Development Initiative.

Margarita Pivovarova is an economist by education and a passionate advocate for public education for all. After earning her PhD in Economics from the University of Toronto, she joined Mary Lou Fulton Teacher College to advance the understanding of what works and what does not in education.

Anthony D. Fusco Jr. (Tony) is the Associate Director of Education at the AZJHS. He also serves on the Phoenix Holocaust Association Board, the Honey Girl Inc. Board, ADE’s Holocaust & Genocide Task Force, and the Arizona Anti-Defamation League Education Committee.

Azizullah Tamjeed is a seasoned professional in the education industry with over five years of experience. He holds a Master’s in Global Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University and a Master’s and Bachelor’s in Educational Management from Kabul University.

Ambassador O’Donnell co-founded ASU’s Leadership, Diplomacy, and National Security Lab (LDNS Lab). He is a professor of practice at the School of Politics and Global Studies (SPGS), the Barrett Honors Faculty.

Joanna is the Director of International Grant Initiatives at EdPlus at Arizona State University (ASU), where she oversees the Baobab social learning platform that serves more than 70,000 African youth, solving the continent’s most pressing challenges.

Sudaba Parnian Ahmadi is a seasoned Monitoring and Evaluation expert with over a decade of experience in the Public Health and Education sectors. Currently, she serves as the Manager of M&E at the Association of Public Health Laboratories in the Washington, DC, area, where she leads strategic evaluation efforts and co-leads DEI initiatives.