Zainab Ellis

Social Services Director, Human Rights Initiative of North Texas

Zainab conducts needs assessments, recruits volunteers, provides community outreach and advocacy and administrates programs at the Human Rights Initiative, a non-profit providing free legal and social services to refugee and immigrant survivors of violence. She has also worked at the Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center and served as a volunteer sexual assault victim advocate.

Zainab has a B.A. in International Studies, focusing on Politics & Diplomacy, the Middle East, and Arabic from the University of North Texas. She also has completed graduate coursework in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin as well as Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington, and plans to complete her MS in Social Work in the future.