Christina Tobias-Nahi has been the at the helm of Public Affairs at Islamic Relief USA since 2006. She took a three year sabbatical in 2011 leading International Programs at the Joint Council on International Children’s Services;she also managed the program TechGirls, a summer program of the US State Department and Legacy International to bring emerging female leaders from the Middle East and North Africa to DC for leadership training. In 2014, she returned to Islamic Relief USA as Director of Public Affairs. In 2016, she was a part of an interfaith inter-agency team trip to Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey looking at the refugee situation and child protection issues.
Christina holds a post graduate certificate in Community-based Development and an M.A. in International Relations from Boston University-Paris where she spent two years working in Paris for the OECD. After that, she obtained an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and worked at Harvard for nearly a decade with the Islamic Legal Studies Program and the Civil Rights Project. She has published several book chapters on education issues faced by Muslim immigrant children living in the US.
