Yanikk Lewis is a research and strategy consultant with over a decade of experience in conflict transformation and international development. He has supported high-level strategic communications efforts in Syria and Iraq, and has also worked as a Senior Advisor with USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI), and with organizations such as the US Institute of Peace, where he developed a national peacebuilding strategy for Syria; ALEF-Act for Human Rights, where he advocated for refugee policy reform in Lebanon; NewsDeeply; and the World Economic Forum.