Nariman Moustafa is a Cairo-based educator, researcher, and community organizer in the broader field of decolonial and social-justice based education. She holds a Masters of Education degree from Harvard University, with a long lineage of teachers including the Nile, the desert, her grandmother and the 2011 Tahrir Square revolution. This fills her with a passion for reclaiming diverse knowledge cosmologies using community arts and continuous acts and experiences of assembling as a form of social participation for justice.

She has 11+ years of experience in the fields of international education, social innovation, higher education teaching, leading community arts methods, participatory policy processes as well as agile and adaptive leadership practices. She worked on projects that range from consulting for governments on how to act better with limited resources to designing and facilitating gender-transformative processes with women, youth and refugees. Globally, she works as a Senior Researcher at Edtech Hub, a global consortium of evidence-based research for education policymakers and a Senior Analyst at Open Development and Education. Previously, she founded several initiatives for re-envisioning justice-centered education including Mesahat and Tagawor. Stemming from a belief of local action and transnational solidarity, she is a germinator of the Ecoversities Alliance, a 500+ global alliance of institutions re-imagining higher education from a decolonial perspective. She also serves as a teaching assistant for community organising and adaptive leadership courses at the Harvard Kennedy school besides being a post-growth fellow at the post-growth institute. Her latest research stop before CLS was a fellowship with the Brookings Institution that focused on creating policy-guidance for sexual and reproductive health education, building on community work that she did with Dawar for Arts with adolescents and refugees.