Mona El Hamdani is currently pursuing a Master degree in Public Diplomacy at The Annenberg School for Communication at USC. She has also worked as Country Programme Manager at the Media Diversity Institute (MDI) in Morocco After studying Communications, she worked as a coordinator in charge of monitoring and evaluation for the political party programmes at the National Democratic Institute Morocco (NDI). El Hamdani took part in organizing and supervising civil society activities and national and International events such as the International Observation Mission, 2007 legislative elections. Her current work focuses on encouraging community dialogue and diversity in partnership with local and international partners.