Biography
Soraya Afzali is a Ph.D. candidate with the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at Trinity College Dublin. She received her bachelor’s degree in Business Management from the American University of Afghanistan in 2017 and her masters in International Relations from Central European University in 2018. Soraya has several years of experience in communication and has served as the communication officer at the University of Afghanistan. She has also worked as a freelance consultant with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Economics and the World Bank in Afghanistan on a short-term basis from 2015 to 2017.
Within her volunteer work, she has volunteered for Solace for the Children, the American Councils, and co-founded Humans of Kabul in 2013 to tell stories of Afghan people. Throughout the years, Soraya has been part of various networks focused on civil society empowerment, including the Open Society Foundation, the Initiatives of Change-Caux Scholars Program, and the Le Ciel Foundation. She received the US Embassy Scholarship, the Open Society Leadership Award and is now part of the NETHATE, the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Network.