Amy Ekdawi
Former Mentor - Grassroots Advocacy
Amy Ekdawi is a former Grassroots Advocacy mentor for the Online Activism Institute. She is the co-director of People’s Advocacy, an organization that specializes in community organizing. As a trainer and program designer, Amy has worked with civil society organizations in Egypt and the United States. She is also a board member in many organizations including the United States-Egypt Friendship Society (USEF) and the Alliance of Egyptian Americans (AEA).
Amy's passion for making the world a better place led her to work in the field of community development more than 20 years ago in her home country of Egypt.
Amy has two Master's degrees: one in International Policy and Practice with a focus on democratization processes in the Middle East from the Elliott School for International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington D.C., and another in French-Arabic Simultaneous Interpretation from Ain Shams University, Cairo. She also has an advanced diploma in Social Development from St. Francis Xavier University, NS, Canada.
To learn more about Amy, please visit her website, www.PeoplesAdvocacy.org.
Amy Ekdawi is a former Grassroots Advocacy mentor for the Online Activism Institute. She is the co-director of People’s Advocacy, an organization that specializes in community organizing. As a trainer and program designer, Amy has worked with civil society organizations in Egypt and the United States. She is also a board member in many organizations including the United States-Egypt Friendship Society (USEF) and the Alliance of Egyptian Americans (AEA). Amy's passion for making the world a better place led her to work in the field of community development more than 20 years ago in her home country of Egypt.
Amy has two Master's degrees: one in International Policy and Practice with a focus on democratization processes in the Middle East from the Elliott School for International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington D.C., and another in French-Arabic Simultaneous Interpretation from Ain Shams University, Cairo. She also has an advanced diploma in Social Development from St. Francis Xavier University, NS, Canada.
To learn more about Amy, please visit her website, www.PeoplesAdvocacy.org.