Nour Elkhattaby Strauch

Nour Elkhattaby Strauch is a community organizer and facilitator from Casablanca, Morocco. He currently lives in Western Massachusetts and serves as Executive Director of YES!, an organization that works with social changemakers at the meeting point of internal, interpersonal and systemic change, and aims to co-create thriving, just and balanced ways of life for all. Prior to moving to the U.S, Nour worked mostly in the fields of education, community development, human rights, peace-building and socio-economic integration of at-risk youth and women from disadvantaged neighborhoods in Casablanca. He is the former president of a youth-led NGO called Neighborhoods Association Idmaj, and has served on the National Administrative Council of Amnesty International Morocco. He has also worked with a number of other non-profits in Morocco and beyond including Seeds of Peace, CorpsAfrica, and LifePath. Nour has been jamming and facilitating Jams for the past 11 years, including the Middle East Jam, the Morocco Jam, the Northeast Jam, and a few others.