Yasmine El Baggari
Founder & CEO at Voyaj
- Role
- Ehf Fellow (C7) at Edmund Hillary Fellowship Ehf
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Yasmine El Baggari
Yasmine El Baggari, a native of Morocco and San Francisco based is passionate about connecting people and bridging cultures to encourage a more peaceful caring world. She launched Voyaj, a platform that connects people from around the globe for one-on-one meaningful exchanges to foster global understanding. For the past four years, Yasmine’s reach has included work with the World Bank, research at Harvard University, and the US State Department as an \"Engage America\" Ambassador. She has spoken at international conferences, including the World Economic Forum, the Middle East Studies Association, and Obama\'s Global Entrepreneurship Summit. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Forbes, BBC, and the Huffington Post. Yasmine has also received awards from the African Studies Association, Hampshire College’s $60K Award for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Glamour Women of the Year Entrepreneur Category Award, and two Ingenuity Awards. Recently, she was invited to the White House as one of the 100 Most Influential Travel Bloggers, and on Forbes\' list as one of of the most inspiring and promising entrepreneurs in 2016. Yasmine has traveled to all 50 U.S. states, 40+ countries on her own and was welcomed with 250+ families globally. Her next stop? The Moon. She is simply on a mission to bring back openness, curiosity, and empathy into our world.
Experience
Ehf Fellow (C7)
Aug 2020 — Present · NZ
The Edmund Hillary Fellowship is focused on creating positive global impact. It brings world-class entrepreneurs, investors, and startup teams, to encourage more innovation and investment capital towards developing new transformative solutions for global challenges, from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Education
Harvard University
Graduate School of Education, Human Development and Psychology
Hampshire College
Bachelor's degree, Economics and Gender Studies
Skills
- English
- Event Planning
- Spanish
- French
- Social Media
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Community Outreach
- Qualitative Research
- Coding Languages
- Education
- Teamwork
- Arabic
- Leadership
- Blogging
- Web Development
- Css Javascript
- Economics
- Photoshop
- Social Networking
- International Relations
- Statistical Data Analysis
- Research
- Copy Editing
- Editing
- Team Leadership
- Foreign Languages
- Travel Writing
- Stata
- Public Relations
- Proofreading
- Indesign
- Public Speaking
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