LEO Advisors

Samer Anabtawi is currently a Graduate Assistant and a PhD student in Comparative Politics and Quantitative Research Methods at the George Washington University. In 2013, Samer completed his MA in International Relations at the University of Chicago with an emphasis on International Political Economy. Between 2013 and 2015, Samer worked as a Media consultant with […]

Jamilah Shami is a Palestinian-American organizer dedicated to civil and human rights. She served as a board member of several organizations, including the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). She also served as an ADC National Board Member and as Chapter President of the Washington D.C. Area Chapter, where she worked closely with the local Board of

Laila is a licensed clinical social worker in Bethesda, Maryland, who has been in private practice since 2007, specializing in psychotherapy and cross-cultural therapy for individuals, couples, and families. She earned her Master’s Degree in Social Work from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology and Spanish from

Dr. Diya Abdo is Associate Professor of English and current Chair of the Department of English and Creative Writing at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina. A first-generation Palestinian, born and raised in Jordan, she received her B.A. in English Language and Literature (1996) from Yarmouk University in Jordan and her M.A. (1998) and Ph.D.

In 2006, Dr. Leonard developed MaHakkaat at-Tafkir, a discussion program in Arabic for the Ministry of Education in Jordan for 6th–9th graders. He currently spends half the year training teacher trainers who implement this program in the public schools. He just completed work on a book in conjunction with the Minister of Education in Jordan: