Yasmeen Shaheen-McConnell
Managing Director, Partnerships

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As Managing Director of Partnerships, Yasmeen focuses on keeping champions of service invested in the work of the Service Year Alliance, and attracting and retaining new leaders committed to our mission and aligned with our work. Yasmeen is a proud AmeriCorps alumna, and served in 2008 with the Arab American Resource Corps in a community support and cultural resource position before becoming a supervisor for future members. She came to Service Year Alliance from the Franklin Project at the Aspen Institute, where she designed and ran a fellowship program after directing the relaunch of the service year movement at the Summit at Gettysburg. Yasmeen was a business development consultant with News Deeply, a new media and technology startup, and previously managed programs at the Arab American Institute, where she oversaw youth and advocacy efforts, fundraising galas, leadership summits, and the Arab American Census Information Center. Yasmeen earned a master’s degree in Religion, Ethics and Politics from Harvard Divinity School and her B.A. in International Affairs and Anthropology from the George Washington University.

Yasmeen Shaheen-McConnell | Managing Director, Strategic Engagement
Yasmeen Shaheen-McConnell | Managing Director, Partnerships
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