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Sana Ali Mustafa

Chief Executive Officer, Asylum Access

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Sana Ali Mustafa is a feminist human rights activist and movement leader fighting against oppression in Syria and around the world. She's the CEO of Asylum Access, where she leads the organization’s work on refugee rights and refugee leadership, and is the first and only female CEO of an international refugee rights organization with lived experience of forced displacement. Before joining Asylum Access, Mustafa led global efforts for the representation and inclusion of forcibly displaced persons. She is an active public speaker, a board member of the Karam Foundation, an aid organization focused on helping those affected by the Syrian Civil War, and a member of Syria’s first women’s political movement.