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Mayyada Abu Jaber
Founder and CEO
Mayyada Abu Jaber is a Brookings Institution Global Scholar for Leaders in Girls Education and conducted a research to evaluate gender bias in the national Jordanian curriculum. Mayyada recommended policies and strategies to address evidence of inequality. As a result, Mayyada founded JoWomenomics as an independent non-profit organization to foster mindset change towards greater women’s economic participation. This entailed influencing labor law policies, conducting transformative behavioral change campaigns to reach more than 3000 community members, and providing job opportunities to more than 600 women marginalized communities in Jordan. Mayyada is the founder of World of Letters, a social enterprise that provides equity and justice to youth and women in the MENA region.
She was invited by President Clinton to share her expertise at the Clinton Global Initiative, 2011. Mayyada’s work was featured in the WISE summit in 2014 as one of 15 best practices in the world to tackle the Education/Employment interface. Mayyada served as an educational consultant at the office of Her Majesty Queen Rania Abdullah II. In 2017, Mayyada was recognized by the World Bank as an inspirational leader in the Middle East and North Africa. Mayyada is also recognized as one of the women leaders in the Arab World by The Gibran Chair for Value and Peace. Mayyada is part of the specialist group in the UN-Harmony for Nature Earth Jurisprudence group. Mayyada serves as a vice-chair of the Center for Environmental Ethics and Law (CEEL), a 501C non-profit based in the USA. Mayyada is currently working on a Ph.D. on Integral Development towards a Feminist Economy from the DaVinci Institute and received her Master's degree in Environmental Geology at Duke University and is fluent in Arabic, English, Pashtu and basic Urdu. |
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Mohammed Al Ammad
Operations Manager
Mohammed Al Ammad is a trainer in the field of personal skills development, founder and partner of the company (Big Bag for training), and is specialized in the field of practical training and training outside the halls. He is also an accredited trainer to the Jordanian Forum for Youth Innovation and works as a consultant to a group of projects funded for the development and rehabilitation of youth in Jordan, such as the Danish game project and camp the People of Determination for Dar Abu Abdullah, Tekiet Um Ali, and Nahno which is one of the projects of the Crown Prince. Mohammed currently works as an operations manager for the JoWomenomics project funded by the Netherlands embassy in Jordan and contributes to the implementation of the media campaign for the Women as Partners in Progress project - Jordan, implemented by World of Letters. |
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Samar Tabbalat
Master Trainer
Samar Tabbalat is a certified master trainer for many international and local organizations, specialized in life skills training, and has a lot of experience in TOT at the regional level (Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Turkey). Samar has over 10 years of professional experience, working with underserved youth throughout the kingdom. And she developed and designed many training materials related to the programs through many NGO’s, as well as participated in editing and adopting manuals for international organizations in Jordan. Samar also has good experience in project coordination and management, monitoring, and evaluation as a senior quality control officer. |
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Marah Abdullah
Graphic Designer and Illustrator
Marah Abdullah has a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from Al Ahliyya Amman University and worked in graphic design for over 3 years. She is specialized in social media designs and creating vibrant and colorful designs with the usage of digitally painted illustrations. |
studied networking and information technology in Syria He worked in many organizations since the outbreak of the war there. He was keen to support societal issues through his work in social welfare projects with UNHCR. He also worked in the disaster management department with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, He moved to live in Jordan and believing that support and empowerment will be in a place in this world as long as there is a need and more vulnerable groups. He also recently participated in youth and technology conferences to support women's issues with SIGI-JORDAN. He volunteered for many organizations, most notably the Lutheran World Federation, which works to support communities outside and inside refugee camps in Jordan
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