Mr. Nima Abbaszadeh

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Nima Abbaszadeh , Program Associate
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Nima AbbaszadehNima Abbaszadeh serves as a Program Associate with the BEPS Activity in the Education, Mobilization and Communication Division at Creative Associates.He has previously served as an intern at the Center for Democracy in Washington, D.C. and as an international relations intern at the Office of Mayor Vera Katz in Portland, Oregon.Mr. Abbaszadeh holds a B.A. in Political Science and International Studies from Washington University in St. Louis, where he took an active and involved interest in working with local youth as well.In addition to volunteering as a tutor at a local elementary school, he helped establish a student organization dedicated to advocacy and volunteerism for children's issues and coordinated with a youth shelter to plan programs for at-risk teenagers.Mr. Abbaszadeh has also lived and studied in London, Spain, and Mexico.He is proficient in Spanish and has a working knowledge of Farsi.

Nima Abbaszadeh, Program Associate

Nima AbbaszadehProgram AssistantNimaA@caii.com

Soon moving to Princeton University is EMC's Nima Abbaszadeh, who says he discovered his international relations and policy interests in college.In the fall, he will be studying at the Woodrow Wilson School in a master's program.He envisions a career that involves working on foreign policy issues concerning Iran and Afghanistan.

"I'm attracted to the element of change in international work—the field is constantly in flux, and I think that keeps it intellectually engaging for me personally," he says.At Creative, he started as a program assistant for the BEPS activity and took on more substantive work on projects in the Philippines and Afghanistan.Trips to Zambia and Afghanistan were his first opportunities to work in the field and confront implementation processes and challenges.

At Creative, he found an environment that supported his growth."I can't say I knew much about education when I started at Creative, or even implementing a development project in general.So there has been a lot of room for growth!," Abbaszadeh said.
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