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Amaha Kassa

Founder and Executive Director, African Communities Together

Amaha Kassa is founder and Executive Director of African Communities Together, a national membership organization of African immigrants and their families which he founded in 2012. Amaha has worked as a labor and community organizer for 25 years. He previously served as Executive Director of East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy in Oakland, California. Amaha is a licensed attorney who earned his law degree from UC Berkeley and his Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School. He is an immigrant from Ethiopia.