Omid Memarian is the Director of Communications at DAWN and also serves as the organization's Senior Iran Analyst. A journalist and human rights professional, he has extensively covered human rights and foreign policy issues in his writings and throughout his career.

At DAWN, Memarian leads the organization's communications strategy while also providing policy insight and analysis on Iran, drawing on more than two decades of experience in journalism, advocacy, and international policy. In this dual role, he appears frequently in media and public discussions on Iran-related issues, sharing his expertise with policymakers and the wider public.

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.

As a journalist and analyst, he has appeared on MSNBC, NBC, BBC, and Al Jazeera, and 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.