Sama Ben Amer Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Evanston, Illinois, United States

I primarily work with the managers of the Students Publishing Company on the prerequisite aspects of newspaper production of The Daily Northwestern. This includes creating a framework of each print issue that maps advertisement placements, communicating with the printing company on what to expect for each print issue, and creating house ads for future use. Outside of my primary job, I work with the Syllabus Yearbook and help out with any miscellaneous office tasks for the office managers as needed.

Evanston, Illinois, United States

As part of the Emerging Scholars Program from the Office of Undergraduate Research, I am working with Professor Shayna Silverstein who specializes in performance studies of the Middle East on a project regarding the role of Middle Eastern folk dance, instruments, and performance circles in cultivating community in the diaspora and how that might have changed from its ancestral role. We will also examine how these cultural traditions create space for social and/or political movements, particularly in the Chicagoland area.I will be learning and practicing various methods of research including critical ethnography, field work, archival research, observational research, and interviewing.

Dublin, Ohio, United States

Hilliard, Ohio, United States

As part of the Young Professionals Academy curriculum at Emerald Campus, I worked with the staff of CAIR Ohio as a shadow/apprentice for a month. During my time there, I learned about the structure of a civil liberties organization and a 501 (c)(3). I worked with the legal team on their record sealing legal clinic initiative called "Second Chances Clinic." I researched and compiled a sheet of local legal and social justice organizations whose missions aligned with the clinic to then reach out to them to increase the reach of the clinic. I was also able to see a behind the scenes look into what the average day of maintaining a civil liberties org looked like, whether it was through preparations for open house events or through editing year-end pamphlets to distribute to potential community allies to highlight all their important community work.

High School Diploma

Bachelor'S Degree, Journalism And International Studies

Activities and Societies: Northwestern University Community for Human Rights, Middle Eastern and North African Student Association, A&O.