Shamim Jawad is the founder and president of the ''Ayenda Foundation'', the Afghan Children Initiative, which works for the welfare, education, health, shelter and safety of

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children. She is a member of the ''U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council'', an organization established in 2002 by Presidents

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and

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to advance the rights of women in Afghanistan. She serves on the board of trustees of the

American University of Afghanistan The American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) ( fa, ; ps, ) is an Afghan private university located in the Darulaman section of Kabul. Most students of AUAF currently live abroad and there are plans to create a new AUAF campus in Qatar in the ...

(AUAF), a private, not-for-profit institution of higher education in Afghanistan, offering internationally supported degree programs and education. In addition, Mrs. Jawad is a member of the International Women's Forum (IWF). In 2009, Shamim Jawad was one of 25 women selected worldwide from executives in many different industries for the ''International Women’s Forum Leadership Foundation Fellows Program'' at Harvard University and the

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at the University of Cambridge. She has also received the ''Liberty Award'' from ''Dialogue on Diversity'' for her efforts to defend women's rights and advocate social welfare for women in Afghanistan. Jawad was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and studied at Kabul University and Golden Gate University in San Francisco, where she received a bachelor's degree in Human Relations. Before her husband's diplomatic posting to Washington, DC in November 2003, she worked as a financial consultant for

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, a financial services organization.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jawad, Shamim Living people American University of Afghanistan Year of birth missing (living people) People from Kabul