Atlanta Advisory Committee Meeting with Councilmember Amir Farokhi
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Councilmember Amir FarokhiDistrict 2
Atlanta City Council
Amir was elected to the Atlanta City Council in November 2017, where he currently serves on the following committees: Transportation, Committee on Council, and Zoning, where he serves as Vice-Chair.
Amir is a lifelong Atlantan who has built a reputation as a thoughtful, pragmatic leader focused on policy over politics. Throughout his career, he has been committed to community engagement. From bicycle and transit advocacy to education to strengthening support for Atlanta's firefighters, Amir has worked to make Atlanta safer, livable, and more vibrant.
Amir's activism started in college, when he helped push a successful effort to get his institution to recognize MLK Jr. Day as an official university holiday. After practicing law with an international firm for five years, he co-founded the non-partisan, statewide nonprofit GeorgiaForward to bring business, government and civil society together to tackle the state's most pressing issues.
While running GeorgiaForward, he launched the Young Gamechangers program which brings together the state's brightest young minds to solve longstanding challenges in Georgia cities. Under the GeorgiaForward banner, Amir also led a coalition of organizations to publish the state's first-ever Civic Health Index.
Amir then served as Chief Operating Officer of College Advising Corps, a $30M+ national education non-profit which works to increase the number of low-income students who apply to and attend college. In this role, he worked at the intersection of business, higher education, and philanthropy, collaborating to address one of America's biggest barriers to socioeconomic mobility for low-income families: access to a college education. In this role, he also helped launch a partnership with Achieve Atlanta to increase the number of Atlanta Public School students who matriculate to college.
Today, Amir works as the Director of Corporate Council at CARE USA, a global humanitarian organization providing disaster relief to areas in crisis, while also providing long-term solutions to poverty around the world. In this role, we work with CARE’s corporate partners in pursuit of achieving gender equality.
Amir lives with his wife, Julie, in the Old Fourth Ward. He is a graduate of The Galloway School, Duke University, and Duke University School of Law.
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Georgia's Most Influential - Notable Georgian, Georgia Trend Magazine, 2011-2013, 2019
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40 Under 40, Georgia Trend Magazine, 2013
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Leadership Atlanta, 2013
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LEAD Atlanta, 2006
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Marshall Memorial Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States, 2011
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Fellow, Truman National Security Project
