Elsa Imdad Hussain

Project Coordinator

Elsa Imdad works as Project Coordinator, Beyond Boundaries, a unique Pakistan-Afghanistan Track 1.5/ II initiative to help improve relations between the two countries and enhance people-to-people contacts.  Apart from this, she manages the Afghan Studies Center at CRSS and contributes to the political section of Matrix magazine. Elsa has previously been part of the American Spaces in Pakistan as a Project Coordinator, Lincoln Corner Hyderabad. She also served as an English lecturer at Sukkur IBA University for a year. She has performed duties as a research associate in an ethnographic study by UNICEF titled “Improving Adolescents’ Lives in South Asia”. Elsa holds a bachelors in modern languages with an English major and Spanish minor. She attended Wilson College, PA, as a Global UGRAD cultural exchange student in the fall of 2014.  Also, she has been part of South Asian youth fraternities and dialogues and represented Pakistan on different international platforms. Elsa’s research interests include peace and conflict resolution, global politics, public and cultural diplomacy, capacity building of marginalized groups, etc. Currently, she is also serving as President of the Pak-US Alumni Network Jamshoro Chapter.

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“For the past nine years, I have been living in Pakistan. Being part of different youth initiatives here has allowed me to witness the incredible warmth and hospitality of the Pakistani people, and how they empathize with young Afghans like me. The Pak-Afghan Youth Peace Initiative by CRSS has helped me realize my potential as a youth and refugee leader. I’m determined to spread the messages of peace and friendship that I am taking away from this fellowship.”

Zainab Saee

Afghan Refugee