Profile
MARYAM S. ZAR
Balance Career and Motherhood
Public Policy
Issues of Aid in the 3rd world
Women’s Issues (legal & humanitarian)
Maryam is a former correspondent, newspaper editor, entrepreneur and successful business person, while also an immigrant, a mother, a wife and a human with a conscience.
She is an Iranian-born American who grew up in New Jersey. She has a B.S. in Mass Communications and Journalism from Boston University and a J.D. from Pepperdine Law School. She moved back to Iran in the 1990s for four years and became an editor at Tehran Times, an English-language daily newspaper in Iran, as well as a writer/correspondent for Gulf Marketing Review (GMR) and Middle East Economic Digest (MEED), published in London.
In 2010, Maryam Founded Womenfound, a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness about the plight of women in underdeveloped parts of the world, as well as raising money for charities and foundations that help women around the world. She is currently the Editor of the English section of Rahavard Journal of Persian Studies, and the former Director of Women’s Programs at Omid for Iran Foundation, an organization with a mission to promote democracy in Iran. She appears as a guest on several Persian-language programs discussing women and women’s issues, and speaks at events addressing the concerns of women in her community.
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