A Voice For the Voiceless

MISSION

The Advocacy Project seeks to help community-based advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and so become more effective advocates for human rights and social justice

Amali Tower and the Alternative Information Center

Amali Tower is an AP Peace Fellow with the Alternative Information Center (AIC), working this summer on areas of economic rights in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.

Amali is joining The Advocacy Project from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, where she is currently pursuing a master's degree in international affairs with a concentration in human rights.

Her focus of studies is a result of her travels and global humanitarian interests.  Amali has traveled to over 30 countries around the world, and her humanitarian work has taken her to South Africa and Zambia to work on the AIDS pandemic and debt crisis; Lima, Peru, where she worked as an English teacher; Chiang Mai, Thailand to work with Burmese refugees; and Sri Lanka, where she co-founded Bridge2Peace, a nonprofit organization that built a school that provides free education for children affected by the civil war and tsunami.

She has also worked with The International Rescue Committee, providing resettlement services to global refugees and victims of human trafficking and torture.

Previously, Amali studied international development, focusing on sub-saharan Africa and the Middle East at UCLA, and attained the international diploma in humanitarian assistance from the University of Geneva.

She is also the recipient of the California Distinguished Alumni award for her humanitarian work. A lifelong traveler, this will be Amali’s first trip to Palestine, where she is interested in supporting the Palestinian people’s struggle for autonomy and self-determination, and researching how the occupation and separation wall continues to impact the daily lives of Palestinians.