Sara Alaa

Sara graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University. She majored in political science, minored in public administration and graduated with a very good grade. After graduation, she joined the Lazord Fellowship hosted by the John D. Gerhart Center at the American University in Cairo (AUC). It was an eye-opening regional experience that provided her with professional and civic skills through a year-long job placement at the Civic Participation Program of the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Initiative (DEDI) as a program assistant. She considers this experience a milestone in her career that made her grounded and well-prepared to pursue a professional career in development sector. In 2022, she graduated with a Monitoring and Evaluation Diploma, offered by AUC. Currently, she works as a MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning) at Catholic Relief Services.

Mostafa Nehad

Mostafa is a youth leader in the civic society field who is passionate about a project management career.

Mostafa is eager to learn more about his career, so he started working at Alashanek Ya Balady Association for Sustainable Development (AYB-SD) during Lazord Fellowship in order to practice all the project management activities. He still works and grows there.

Alongside, he is a consultant in research, data collection, data analysis, project implementation, livelihood projects, creating manuals and curricular. In addition,he works as an employability and entrepreneurship trainer as well as a career coach.

Mostafa graduated from the Faculty of Commerce English Section; Business Administration department and he is always ambitious to achieve all of his own career goals.

Mostafa Shahin

Mostafa is a dedicated, proactive business graduate from Egypt with a passion for entrepreneurship and travel. He has had a long record of community engagement since 2012. After graduating, he travelled to Bangalore, India, where he became familiar with the entrepreneurial scene in India during his stay at Jagaa startup incubator.

Following this experience, Mostafa explored a banking career in multiple banks. Pursuing his passion, he quit his job at the bank and applied for the Lazord Fellowship for development studies. Shortly after, Mostafa joined AUC Venture Lab Startup accelerator, where he worked closely with entrepreneurs to refine and scale their business.

Currently, Mostafa is a Fulbright Scholar and a 2nd year MBA Student focusing on Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Georgia.

Abdulrahman Ebrahim

Bigad Haytham

Ahmed Khalaf

Ahmed Saad