Omar Malik is the Advocacy Associate at TIMEP, where his work focuses on advancing localized policy toward the MENA region and amplifying the voices of advocates from the region and its diaspora. He was previously an Advocacy Intern at TIMEP. He also interned at the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC), the Global Development Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and the American Committee for Middle East Rights (ACMER), where he was part of the inaugural cohort of its Leadership Development Program. Originally from Pittsburgh, Omar received his BA in Public Policy from the University of Michigan with a focus on human rights. As an undergraduate, he developed an interest in transitional justice, advocacy, and atrocity prevention, and worked as a research assistant in the Department of Comparative Literature, analyzing literary narratives of atrocity in the context of the Lebanese Civil War.