Narges Bajoghli is the co-founder of the 501c3 organization, Iranian Alliances Across Borders (IAAB, http://www.iranianalliances.org/). IAAB, which focuses on empowering the young generation of Iranian Americans through leadership building, is the largest youth-based organization in the Iranian diaspora. Since 2003, Narges has overseen, among others, the development of its International Conferences on the Iranian Diaspora, the creation of Camp Ayandeh, and co-curated TRANSFORM/NATION: Contemporary Art of Iran and Its Diaspora, sister exhibitions in Washington DC and Tehran, summer 2007. Narges is a PhD candidate in socio-cultural and linguistic Anthropology at New York University and a documentary filmmaker. Her film, The Skin That Burns, about survivors of chemical warfare in Iran, has screened in New York, Los Angeles, and Hiroshima. Narges has received a M.A. in the Social Sciences, focusing on Anthropology, from the University of Chicago, a M.A. in Anthropology from New York University, and her B.A. from Wellesley College in International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies. As the recipient of the Susan Knafel Fellowship, Narges spent three semesters researching at the University of Tehran’s Faculty of Law and Political Science. She is a regular writer on Iranian art, politics, and media