Yomna Omar
Research Specialist - Research And Advocacy Department at Alnahda_Society
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolYomna Omar is a research and advocacy specialist with a decade of hands-on experience advancing women’s rights, refugee resettlement, and humanitarian programming across Canada and conflict-affected settings. With an MA in Global Health and a BA in Psychology, she blends program management, legal casework, and M&E expertise—having developed legal education toolkits, led resettlement intakes, and designed literacy curricula for refugee contexts. At CASSA and StARS she has coordinated multi-stakeholder initiatives, represented community interests in municipal vaccine and refugee clusters, and managed complex donor-facing reporting. Known for combining an equity-focused, anti-oppressive lens with practical logistics and crisis response skills, she also brings field-tested emergency relief experience from Red Cross deployments and camp-based training roles. Colleagues value her ability to translate research into accessible resources and to supervise cross-cultural teams and interns toward measurable impact.
10 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Global Health, Master's degree, Global Health at McMaster UniversityBachelor's degree, PSYCHOLOGY, Bachelor's degree, PSYCHOLOGY at American University in Cairo (AUC)
English, Arabic, French
Github Skills (12)
nlp6
counter5
natural-language-processing5
python5
deep-learning5
pytorch5
machine-learning4
data-science4
transformers3
kotlin3
bert3
android2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yomnaomar/LCPS
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
yomna0mar/Deep-NLP-Challenge
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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