CGDS is pleased to welcome Tara Mohammed Shwani to our team. Ms.Tara now lives in the city of Sulaimani, but she was born in Baghdad and lived there for 10 years. Her position at CGDS is the MENA Community Liaison. This position helps CGDS to build a MENA-wide gender studies network as part of our EU-funded project to effect gender equity through eduction. Ms. Tara joined the team in September, 2020. She has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a double minor in Economics and Gender Studies from the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. She served as the student speaker at AUIS’s commencement ceremony, held in September 2020. She previously worked as a Media Monitor, also as part of the EU project, for CGDS when she was a student at AUIS. She is interested in policy making and economics, and she loves writing, and won the best essay award in the AUIS spring essay competition for two years in a row. Her favorite part about working at CGDS is that she is doing what she loves by advancing gender equity and research in the region, and she also loves that she works with a very supportive team who are always willing to help her learn new things and succeed.
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