Justin Hefter is a co-founding board member of the 30 Birds Foundation, which supports predominantly female Hazara scholars who have been evacuated from Afghanistan. He’s also the Vice Chair of The African Middle Eastern Leadership Project, which trains, connects and protects young human rights activists. He is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he is pursuing a masters in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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