Yassamin Ansari is a co-chair of Syria Deeply on Campus, a News Deeply initiative that works with college students to understand and engage the Syria crisis. She’s a junior at Stanford University. Follow her on Twitter at @yassaminansari. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/yassamin-ansari/rss en Human Rights Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Yassamin Ansari https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2013/02/20/the-journey-that-led-to-caravan-aid https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2013/02/20/the-journey-that-led-to-caravan-aid Yassamin Ansari is a co-chair of Syria Deeply on Campus, a News Deeply initiative that works with college students to understand and engage the Syria crisis. SDOC’s first project, Caravan Aid, is raising funds to help the UNHCR provide heated trailers to residents of the Zaatari Refugee Camp. Civil Society Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Yassamin Ansari https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2013/01/23/caravan-aid-yes-you-can-do-something-about-syria https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2013/01/23/caravan-aid-yes-you-can-do-something-about-syria Yassamin Ansari is an International Relations major at Stanford University. She spent the fall of 2012 studying Arabic in Amman, Jordan, where she also reported as an independent journalist from the Zaatari Refugee Camp. Yassamin is also the Co-Chair of Syria Deeply On Campus.