Amira Mikhail
Eshhad - Center for the Protection of Minorities Director
NY
Amira Mikhail is the director of Eshhad: Center for the Protection of Minorities, a nonprofit that is focused on the protection of religious and ethnic minorities in the Middle East.
She also serves as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the International Refugee Assistance Project where she focuses on identifying pathways for family reunification for refugees, asylees, and other vulnerable populations. Amira has also worked as a Non-Resident Fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) and as a legal fellow at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.
She is a graduate of Washington College of Law at American University, where she worked with the UNROW Human Rights Impact Litigation Clinic, the Human Rights Brief, and as a research assistant to the Chairperson of the United Nations Committee against Torture. She also interned with the International Refugee Assistance Project and the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch and has been published on a variety of legal and social issues relating to Egypt and the Middle East. She graduated from Covenant College with a B.A. in Psychology.