Bahar Ghandehari

Bahar Ghandehari, Director of Communications 

Bahar Ghandehari is an Iranian-born human rights defender. She studied government and journalism at Georgetown University. Ghandehari is a junior policy fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Litigation Project, working on the End Gender Apartheid campaign. She is the founder of the youth-led organization Middle East Matters, which focuses on media journalism and digital human rights campaigns. She previously served as the advocacy officer at the Syrian Emergency Task Force, where she worked on policy, advocacy, and accountability efforts concerning human rights issues and atrocities in Syria.