Reem Ghunaim

Accomplished Executive Director recognized for leveraging strong team leadership and development to drive forward progress. Highly organized, detail-oriented leader skilled in directing high-performing teams to develop solutions and solve operational and technical problems. Success implementing systems across multiple operations with superior organizational and communication skills.

• Recipient of USCIS O-1 and EB-1A Visas, awarded to professionals demonstrating extraordinary ability in their respective fields and recognized as top-tier experts in their respective fields.
• Awarded various awards including the 2021 Global Peace and Humanitarian Award in recognition of her international peacebuilding work.
• Planned and lead the Nonviolent Action and Human Rights Defender convention in Nepal, 2023. This includes travel logistics for 80+ activists from over 40+ countries, designing the program, fundraising, and leading organizational teams.
• Designed the first cross-borders educational program between classrooms in the US, Cameroon and Palestine.
• Cultivated strategic relationships and negotiated MOUs and successful collaborations with various national and international organizations most recently, a partnership with The International Governance Institute Cameroon.
• Created and hosted two seasons and 26 episodes of Together for Peace Webinar series featuring globally renowned speakers.
• Served on multiple boards including the Rotary Club Portland, Combatants for Peace, Peace Village and Hands of Peace. Also served on multiple committees including the 2018 Environmental Sustainability and Peace Presidential Conference, where Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canda was a speaker.
• Increased the strategic outreach of the Rotary Action Group for Peace including the Peacebuilder network and the membership. The Peacebuilder network outreach increased from one state in the US to almost every state in the US and over 30 nations. The membership also reached 125 countries.
• Obtained distinguished recognition at various international platforms, networks, events and magazines including by the globally respected Rotary International Magazine.
• Invited as keynote speaker in over 25 global and national conferences including Geneva, Hamburg, Seoul, Toronto and Atlanta.
• Advocated for a Two-State Solution on a nationwide tour as an Ambassador with the One Voice movement in 2012, delivering keynote addresses at prestigious institutions including Harvard Kennedy School, Brown University, and Columbia University.
• Successfully coordinated the 2011 Ramallah Contemporary International Dance Festival, supported by the European Commission, featuring 18 contemporary dance performances.
• Served as the economic development lead in the four-month Land Use project at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (September 2013-December 2013) to assist the City of Shenzhen in implementing the Livability concept. Conducted research and devised pioneering economic strategies focused on art, resulting in substantial socioeconomic transformation within the city.

• Positive Peace Activator, Institute for Economics and Peace, United States, 01/01/20, Present
• Global Peace Index Ambassador, Institute for Economics and Peace, United States, 11/01/15, Present

• Combatants for Peace, United States, 11/01/20, Present
• Hands of Peace, Chicago, IL/San Diego, CA, 02/01/20, Present
• Peace Village, Portland, OR, 2018, 2021
• Director Portland Child Art Studio - July 2021 – Present, Portland, OR
• Rotary Club of Portland- July 2019- July 2021, Portland, OR

• Institute for Economics and Peace
• Rotary International
• Nonviolence International
• Hands of Peace
• Combatants for Peace
• Omdena (AI for Good)
• OneVoice Movement
• Art of Living Organization

● https://rotaryserviceblog.org/2020/02/20/pioneers-of-peace-are-people-of-action/ an article featuring some of Reem’s projects 

● My Mother’s Dream: an article featuring Reem in Rotary International 

● Promoting Peace Alongside Palestinian Community Leaders 

● Waging Peace: A Rotary Peace Scholars Story

● Peacebuilder Clubs create momentum for peace within communities 

● Sparking peace in your community 

● Reem IEP Testimony for Positive Peace Academy 

● The Shift Network: an article authored by Reem about Rotary and Peace 

● Featured in the Daily Post/ Los Alamos 

● Reem’s article featured by CPNN (Culture of Peace News Network) 

● Reem as a Global Heel article about Reem at UNC Chapel Hill 

● Reem’s Article about her Applied Field Experience as a Rotary Peace Fellow 

● Rotarian Peace Conferencing Summary Reem was a convener, contributor and organizer. 

● Reem Radio interview about her invitation to present her work and speak at the UN https://kboo.fm/media/76456- localhumanitarian-reem-ghunaim-teaches-world-about-peace 

● https://vimeo.com/channels/rotary2014/92261146 Reem presentation about Social Entrepreneurship at Duke UNC  Peace Center 

● Reem webinar series videos season 1 https://www.rotarianactiongroupforpeace.org/together-for-peace-with-reem-ghunaim/ ● Reem webinar series videos season 2 https://rotaryactiongroupforpeace.org/together-for-peace-with-reem-ghunaim/together for-peace-season-2/ 

● https://us4.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=76b2ae6b672695700ce0a87b7&id=46abb38eb4 Reem’s letters to international  peacebuilders in 125 countries. All newsletters and mailings before July 2021. 

● Reem Keynote at Turkey 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c643tyYcw_I 

● Reem Geneva Peace Week 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvn4dWWkXd4 

● Omdena – Covid-19 AI https://medium.com/omdena/covid-19-policies-where-the-wealthy-become-poor-the-poor-become poorer-757cad41458c 

● Reem’s Blog https://www.reemghunaim.com/ 

● One Voice Ambassador https://dailyfreepress.com/2012/02/21/israeli-and-palestinian-activists-gather-to exchangeexperiences-ideas-of-peace/ 

● Reem’s interview on Palestine national TV as a youth activist – http://youtu.be/3oGjD5I‐UH8 ● Peace Hub tour https://rotaryserviceblog.org/2017/02/15/peace-is-possible/ 

● Stanford IEP Conferences https://www.visionofhumanity.org/positive-peace-conference-2018/ https://www.visionofhumanity.org/app/uploads/2018/01/2017-Positive-Peace 

Conference_Connecting-the-Dots-on-Research-Policy-and-Practice_Overview-002.pdf 

● World Peace Conference 2020 in Ontario https://docplayer.net/89620015-World-peace-conference-2017-rotary-works forpeace-march-31-april-1-2017-michigan-league-university-of-michigan-ann-arbor-michigan.html

 ● Speaker to many youth communities in Oregon https://flashalert.net/id/MHCC/123455 

● Example of Rotary Club speaking engagement https://d7600foundation.org/tag/pdg-drfc-juanita-cawley 

Reem has authored articles and garnered recognition on various online platforms and from a wide array of organizations. To gain deeper insights into her work, contributions, and professional accomplishments, a brief online search for "Reem Ghunaim" will yield additional information. For example, you can listen to Reem's radio interview discussing her invitation to present her work and speak at the UN: https://kboo.fm/media/76456-local-humanitarian-reem-ghunaim-teaches-world-about-peace