Omid Memarian is the Director of Communications at DAWN. He is a journalist and human rights professional who has extensively covered human rights issues in his writings and throughout his career.
He has worked with Human Rights Watch and, most recently, the Center for Human Rights in Iran. Previously, Memarian was a Rotary World Peace Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism. In 2005, he received a Human Rights Defender Award, the highest honor given by Human Rights Watch.
Memarian also serves as DAWN's senior Iran analyst, providing his insight and analysis to the team and the policy community on Iran-related issues.
As an analyst, he has appeared on MSNBC, NBC, BBC, and Al-Jazeera. He has written for Inter Press Service (IPS), the Daily Beast, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, Time, the San Francisco Chronicle, Politico, and OpenDemocracy. In 2009, Memarian received his dual master's degree in Journalism and Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
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