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About Me

​Safaya Fawzi is the Associate Director in the Office of Diversity & Inclusion at the American Bar Association. She works to advance Goal III of the ABA: Eliminating Bias & Enhancing Diversity & Inclusion in the legal profession. She leads demographic survey/data collection, coordinates events, manages communications and team-building, and supervises marketing efforts. She is also an expert with the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Experts Hub run by Catalyst:Ed, and a board member of the national disability inclusion organization Kids Included Together (KIT).

Prior to the ABA, she was Manager of D&I Administration at YMCA of the USA, managing service delivery and training as the first point of contact for 800+ YMCA associations, and coordinated her department's work with logistics, budgeting, administration, and Salesforce/CRM processes. She supported the execution, project management, research, and design of trainings and learning solutions on implicit bias, race and racial justice, disability, faith/religious diversity, LGBTQ+ inclusion, immigrant inclusion, and D&I primers, educating hundreds of YMCA staff and volunteers.

Safaya has exhibited a dedication to diversity inclusion, training and research during her time as Multicultural Affairs Coordinator (MAC) at Wellesley College, where she was elected to coordinate voices across multiple cultural groups, representing more than 2300 students. As MAC, she organized campus-wide events and counseled college administration to expand, diversify, and strengthen inclusion practices around communication and policies with students.

She has a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College. She is passionate about doing 1000-piece puzzles and crosswords in her freetime. Safaya hails from Chicagoland.

Why I have created this instructional design portfolio:

I am personally and professionally interested in social and community justice, and the foundations of building justice and equity take place through meaningful education. I believe there is much we have to "unlearn" as adults, and through my own experiences, I am passionate about helping others unlearn intentionally, such as building positive practices and teaching effective ways to engage, as well as practicing them myself. It's through this process of wanting to teach, and being fascinated by what and how we learn as we grow (especially as we become adults and learn in the workforce), that attracted me to the field of instructional design. As a current DEI professional, having supported and directly managed the creation of multiple educational opportunities and facilitator resources for not-for-profit professionals on diversity, equity and inclusion related topics, I hope to learn the technical skills to apply my knowledge of training and learning experiences to the world of diversity & inclusion (and other types of) training.