Manizha Baraki

Manizha Baraki is a development practitioner with a decade-long focus on empowering women and girls and working for gender equality. Manizha has worked with the Afghanistan chapter of the UN Women’s International Unite Campaign to End Violence Against Women.

As Partnership and Evaluation Consultant for Bikes Not Bombs, Manizha has worked with Women’s Bike programs that benefited hundreds of women in the marginalized Mathare slums of Nairobi, young mothers in outskirts of Kigali, and indigenous people especially women of Iztapa in Guatemala, and a youth led environmental organization in El Salvador.

Manizha has actively represented Afghan women and youth on international platforms. She has received training on transnational feminism at EWHA University in Seoul, participated in Debate and Media Camp in Bishkek and Esykol, and is as an active member of Asia Society’s Afghan Young Leaders Initiative. Currently, Manizha is an active member of the UN Women’s Chicago Chapter where she helps with fundraising to Support UN Women’s international programs.

Manizha received her bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Kabul University and her master’s degree in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University.

Manizha is the mommy of a delightful 11 month old girl, Raya.