Community, Business, and Economic Development through Social Enterprise
"If you happen to do a good-work then make sure to forget it. Thinking of it could only give birth to egotism."-Shaykh Faydh Ahmad al-Uwaysi
Rami is an enthusiastic well cultured young globally minded emerging first generation Muslim Arab American for-purpose serial entrepreneur. Currently a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana, he serves as an agricultural economic advisor to the US President's Feed the Future Initiative at the grassroots level and runs the Millennium Challenge Account in the Ashanti Region, in collaboration with the National Director of Ghana's Ministry of Food and Agriculture. With this most recent stint, the focus of Rami's work in rural agricultural development is value chain management to reduce post-harvest loss, capacity building of individuals and groups, and ultimately serve as a strategic resource to the communities at-large that are locally accessible. Prior to this most recent international appointment, he graduated from Belmont University '13 with a Bachelors of Science in Economics and Political Science and a Bachelors of Business Administration in Finance and International Business. As a student, he has studied in 10 plus countries. He has also visited and spent an extensive amount of time in Israel, West Bank, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, United Kingdom, and Ghana. As an active Enactus member during undergraduate, formerly known as Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), he played a crucial role in the development of Spring Back Recycling (SBR). Rami co-lead the pilot phase of initiating and developing SBR. He has individually led and supported others with developing robust models, as SBR, to sustainably address a wide array of issues. He does so because he has a strong passion to cater to and serve the underprivileged and disenfranchised by making a positive, systematic, sustainable, replicable, and scalable impact. He has been awarded numerous recognitions for his work. In particular, during Rami's work with SBR, he was privileged to be recognized with the Award of Excellence in “Teamwork, Focus on Sustainable Employment, Community Service, and Entrepreneurship” from The Metropolitan Government of Nashville, Tennessee and Davidson County, by the order of Mayor Karl Dean (2012).
