Our Team
Khadija Kakar
Senior Program Coordinator
Khadija Kakar is holds a Bachelor's of Business Administration and has worked for several international organizations empowering women, including International Rescue Committee. She recently relocated to the US.
Andrea Yarad
Operations Manager
Andrea Yarad has a Master's degree in quality and productivity management as well as extensive knowledge of project management, scrum and agile methodologies. Originally from Ecuador, she now lives in NY with her family. She speaks Spanish, French and English.
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Kourtegue Tchitchaou
Program Coordinator
Kourtegue Tichitchaou is a multilingual professional from Chad with extensive translation experience who holds a degree in economics and speaks English, French, Chadian Arabic and Gorane.
Shoshana Barzel
Founder, Executive Director
Shoshana Barzel holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University and has worked with refugees and asylum seekers in the U.S. and Middle East.
NNP Staff
Amany Soliman
Program Manager
Amany Soliman holds a masters in public policy and has a background in business and accounting. She moved to the U.S. from Egypt in 2018.
Liana Popova
Financial Officer
Liana Popova holds a masters in engineering. She is from Ukraine, where she also worked as an accountant, and now lives with her family in New York.
Camila Carrión
Program Coordinator
Camila Carrion is a proud Ecuadorian immigrant with a bachelor’s degree in Ecotourism Engineering. Camila speaks Spanish & English and she loves to travel and spend quality time with her family.
Jessica Aung
Development Associate
Jessica Aung is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Accounting. She is fluent in Burmese and English and speaks some Mandarin. She recently resettled in the US from Myanmar.
Our staff comes from 5 continents and collectively speaks nearly 20 languages!
Board of Directors
Naomi Hachen
Senior Research Scientist, Best Buy Health
Adriel Koschitzky
Senior Director of Business Development & Operations, Revolo Biotherapeutics
Maya ElCheikh
DOJ Representative, Human Rights First
Joelle Fenton
Director, The Equity Project Charter School
Holly Schechter
Curriculum Lead, Conceive
Avia Tadmor
Assistant Professor, New York University
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Emani Fenton
Executive Director, Russell Reynolds Associates
Daphne Palasi Andreades
Author, Penguin Random House
Elizette Benicya Lakouetene
Immigration Activist & Student, Hunter College
Jenessa Abrams
Lecturer, Columbia University
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Ariella Barel
Legal Associate, Groombridge, Wu, Baughman and Stone, LLP.
Nisha Baliga
Head of Strategy, MoCaFi
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Sapna Owais
Program Manager, Commonpoint Queens
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Dr. Dana Sirota
Pediatrician, NewYork-Presbyterian
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Serena Covkin
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago
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Charlotte Michailidis
Founder& CEO, Parenthood Ventures