Members of Iranians for Peace
Honorary Chairs |
Board Members |
| Honorary Co-Chair: Dr. Akbar Etemad Honorary Co-Chair: Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz
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Haleh Karimi Golriz Kolahi (Coordinator) Sahba Lajevardi Sara Ruebelt Safa Shoaee Leila Zand |
Honorary Chairs
Dr. Akbar Etemad
Dr. Akbar Etemad was the founder and first President of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran from 1974 to 1978, now lives in France. During this period, he also held senior (elected) positions at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) two main policy making organs: the Board of Governors and General Conference. He was on the IAEA’s 35-member Board of Governors for two years and was elected as the President of the General Conference in 1977.
Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz
Fatemeh Keshavarz chairs the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literature at Washington University. She is the author of "Jasmine and Stars: Reading more than Lolita in Tehran" and serves as honorary co-chair of Iranians for Peace.
Board Members
Haleh Karimi
Haleh karimi is a native of Tehran, Iran. Haleh left Iran at the age of 14 to attend school in United States and Switzerland. She graduated from American College of Switzerland and later completed her degrees in Computer Information Systems in U.S. Haleh's passion in life is to raise awareness to global issues about Peace and Justice through Education and dialogue. She is very active in the community where she lives and serves on the board of directors of several local and international organizations such as World Affairs Council, Interfaith path to Peace, Iranians for Peace, and others.
Golriz Kolahi (Coordinator)
Golriz Kolahi is a film-maker and artist living and working in London, She has been an active anti-war campaigner and was amongst the initiating group of Iranians for Peace.
Sahba Lajevardi
Sahba Ladjevardi is a charity fundraiser and project development manager.
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Sahba Ladjevardi is a charity fundraiser and project development manager. She holds a degree in Library studies from the University of Tehran; Post-Graduate Diploma in ‘Educational Psychology and Educational Development’ from the Institute of Education, University of London; and MA in ‘Education and Development’ from the same Institute, reading under Dr Paul Hurst and Professor Robert Cowen.
After working as a producer and presenter within the Persian Section of the BBC World Service during the period of 1989 and 1999, Sahba Ladjevardi became drawn to the world of charity where she developed, fundraised for, and managed many charitable projects for the Iranians in the UK. These included advisory projects for the welfare of refugees and asylum seekers, women, the homeless and the disabled worth over half a million pounds. In 1996 Sahba Ladjevardi played a key role in the formation of the first Iranian elderly day centre in London, named Pardis. Later she initiated and coordinated the first network of Iranian charitable, cultural and community organisations in London named ICON.
In 1999 she worked closely with Professor Abbas Edalat of Imperial College towards the formation of the Science and Arts Foundation, to which she also acted as a trustee and director.
The most recent project developed and fund-raised for by Sahba Lajevardi was that of Persian Oral History. Shaped in collaboration with Saam Theatre Group and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, this project resulted in an Exhibition of Iranian Oral History at SOAS, London in May 2008.
Sara Ruebelt
As an Iranian-American, she is a graduate Fellow and a Doctoral Student at the Counseling and Family Therapy Department of Saint Louis University. Currently, as a visiting Scholar at University of California-Davis Department of Psychology, She is conducting Cross-Cultural Research on pre-acculturation, intermarriage and adjustment. Sara has 5 years work experience working at the International Institute of St. Louis, Missouri; a non-profit agency assisting the resettlement process of refugees and immigrants and provided support particularly with Afghan Refugee Widows. Sara is also a member of the Speaker's Bureau for the Teach Peace Foundation.
You can read more about Sara's involvement at the following links:
http://www.teachpeace.com/speakersbureau.htm
http://www.slu.edu/graduate/fellow/sara_garrow.html
http://www.capradio.org/programs/insig/default.aspx?showid=3730
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Safa Shoaee
Born in 1984 in Tehran and brought up in an academic yet political environment. Having obtained masters of Physics from University of Manchester, she is currently in her final year of PhD degree at Imperial College London. Parallel to her scientific studies on photovoltaic cells, she is involved in many different societies, with an emphasis on politics.
Leila Zand
Leila Zand is the director of the Iran Program at Fellowship Of Reconciliation www.forusa.org. She is also a (part time) professor of women study department at college of Saint Rose in Albany. Leila is working on her Ph.D in Middle Eastern History and is also responsible for organizing the first meeting between president of Iran and the peace activist in the States.