Mafruza Khan
is Deputy Director at the Center for Social Inclusion. Mafruza is a
social scientist with 15 years experience in policy advocacy and
community-based planning, strategic research and communications, and
program development and management. She is interested in contributing
to developing new models of development that empower individuals and
communities through education, multi-racial alliance building and
strategy development. Mafruza has worked on both rural and urban
social, economic and environmental issues, with a focus on the roles
and responsibilities of the public and private sectors and civil
society in community development.
Mafruza has previously worked at the Pratt Center for Community
Development in New York, at the Investor Responsibility Research
Center in Washington DC, at Working Assets in San Francisco, and at
Proshika in Bangladesh. Mafruza currently serves as a Board Member
and Program Committee Chairperson for Grassroots Leadership, a
southern-based organization that works on prison privatization and
related issues. Mafruza earned her Bachelors and Masters degree in
Economics from Dhaka University in Bangladesh, and her second Masters
in City & Regional Planning from the University of California at
Berkeley.
Why has the Tides Foundation hired this person?
Doesn't seem like this person has faced a situation regarding racial injustice.