OneVoice Movement: About Us

Bolstered by thousands of dedicated volunteers on the ground, OneVoice’s regional field offices are located in Tel Aviv and Ramallah. OneVoice’s international headquarters are located in New York City. Three additional branches, OneVoice Europe, OneVoice Canada, and OneVoice Washington, have opened in London, Ottawa, and Washington DC, respectively. The international offices help provide vision and strategy, procure fundraising, and generate support from governments, corporations, and public figures.

OneVoice International Headquarters (NY)

Daniel Lubetzky

Founder & President

Daniel Lubetzky is Founder and President of The PeaceWorks Foundation, which conceived and guides the OneVoice Movement. He is also Chairman of PeaceWorks Holdings LLC, a business corporation pursuing both peace and profit through joint ventures among neighbors striving to coexist in conflict regions (with ventures in the Mideast and South East Asia and a sales network reaching 5,000 customers in the US). Born and raised in Mexico City, Mr. Lubetzky studied abroad in France and Israel and received his B.A. in Economics and International Relations, magna cum laude, from Trinity University, and his J.D. from Stanford Law School. Fluent in Spanish, English, Hebrew and French, Mr. Lubetzky has lectured at Harvard, The Fletcher School, and The University of Pennsylvania/Wharton, as well as at the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, and the United Nations. In 1997 he was selected by the World Economic Forum as one of 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow (GLT). In 2003 he was named Outstanding Young Alumnus by his Alma Mater; in 2004 he received on behalf of the PeaceWorks Foundation the World Association of NGOs Peace Security and Reconciliation Award; in 2005, he was honored with the Catholic Theological Union’s PeaceMakers Award, and the OneVoice movement received the King Hussein Humanitarian Leadership Prize from Queen Noor. Most recently, in January 2008, Mr. Lubetzky and the PeaceWorks Foundation were honored with the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
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Darya Shaikh

Executive Director, OneVoice US

Darya Shaikh is the US Executive Director for OneVoice. She joined OneVoice in January 2003, working as the public education coordinator and program developer. Having received her B.A in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at the McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Darya comes to OneVoice with a deep understanding for grassroots activism towards civic empowerment. Darya has been involved in reconciliation efforts in the Middle East through Hashomer Hatzair and Givat Haviva since she was 9 years old. Over the course of three years, Darya worked as the facilitator and moderator for a delegation of Jewish-Israeli, Arab-Israeli, and Bedouin Youth. Darya was born in Brooklyn, NY; her mother is Israeli, from Hadera and her father is Pakistani, from Karachi.

Erin Pineda

Director of Communications

Laurel Rapp

International Education Program Director

China Sajadian

International Education Program Coordinator

Sepi Djavaheri

West Coast Outreach & Development Director

Yossi Levin

East Coast Outreach Coordinator

Kenia Ortiz
Finances & Operations Manager

Kim Walker
Executive Assistant to the President

OneVoice Palestine

Nisreen Shahin

General Director

Nisreen Mohammad Shahin is the Executive Director of the Palestinian branch of OneVoice in Ramallah. In this capacity, Ms. Shahin oversees the Palestinian Democratization Drives and Town Hall Meetings and coordinates the joint Israeli-Palestinian OneVoice programming. She is a trained conflict-resolution mediator and instructor, and serves on the boards of the Palestinian Women Association and Tawasul.

Prior to joining the OneVoice team, Ms. Shahin served as Public Relations Director for the Palestinian Authority's International Relations Department in the Ministry of Interior. She also acted as a coordinator for the EC Food Security Program in Jerusalem. Ms. Shahin holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Political Science and a Master's Degree in Business Administration from Bir Zeit University.

Abdullah Hamarsheh

Outreach Coordinator

Nisreen Abdallah

Youth Leadership Coordinator

Dalia Labadi

Imagine 2018 Project Coordinator

Rand Abdo

Communications Coordinator

Faten Dimeh

Executive Secretary

Naim Kamel

Technology Coordinator

Khalil Sehwail

Accountant

OneVoice Israel

Irit Admoni Perlman

General Director

Irit Perlman served for 17 years, as the Executive Director, of "Variety" Israel – a non-profit organization that supports thousands of children with special needs throughout Israel. During her work she was responsible for the organization’s budget, annual work plan, monetary investments, fundraising, routine management of the organization and all of its activities and duties. She represented the organization vis-à-vis entities, institutes, governmental and municipal offices, as well as at conferences in Israel and overseas. Irit is a member of the Steering and Development Committee of the Yariv Foundation for Young Leadership, and a graduate of the Business Coaching Course. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in French Language and Literature and the History of Theatre from Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Gil Shamy

Executive Director

Roi Assaf

Youth Leadership Coordinator

Assaf Halachmi

Technology Coordinator

Enya Lazarus Ben-Adiva

Program Coordinator