Nili Sarit Yossinger
Nili Sarit Yossinger (she/her) is the inaugural Executive Director for Refugee Congress, where she works to fulfill the organization’s mission of ensuring that there are always refugees at the table as equal partners. Prior, Nili was a Research Project Manager at the Institute for the Study of International Migration and the Senior Vice President for Research at Georgetown University, where her projects focused on complex humanitarian emergencies and the intersections of forced migration, food security and environmental degradation in the Horn of Africa and Persian Gulf regions. She previously worked with the Capital Area Food Bank, the UN Refugee Agency Regional Office in Washington, D.C., and Human Rights First. Nili holds a B.A. in International Studies from Loyola University Chicago and a M.A. in German and European Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, along with a Certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies from ISIM. She currently serves as an Advisor for Concordia, an organization that builds and sustains cross-sector partnerships for social impact, and in her free time is a longtime volunteer on the senior staff of American Model United Nations.