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Christina Tobias-Nahi
Director of Public Affairs
Director of Public Affairs

Christina Tobias-Nahi has been working in the international sector for many years. Most recently she ran TechGirls, a summer program of the US State Department and Legacy International to bring emerging female leaders from the Middle East and North Africa to DC for leadership training. Before that she spent three years in International Programs as the Corporate Social Responsibility director for Mead Johnson Nutrition and the Joint Council on International Children’s Services with a portfolio on orphan care and child nutrition. She is returning to Islamic Relief USA where she served from late 2006-2011 as Director of Public Affairs. Christina holds a post graduate certificate in Community-based Development and an M.A. in International Relations from Boston University-Paris and spent two years working in Paris for the OECD. After that she obtained an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and worked at Harvard for nearly a decade with the Islamic Legal Studies Program and the Civil Rights Project. She has published several book chapters on education issues faced by immigrant children living in the US and is also a member of the INEE, the InterAgency Network on Education in Emergencies and has attended their global consultations. She currently serves as an Oxfam Sisters on the Planet Ambassador.