Nili Sarit Yossinger

Nili Sarit Yossinger
Executive Director

Nili Sarit Yossinger is the Executive Director for Refugee Congress, overseeing operations, and implementing communications, funding, capacity-building, advocacy, and partnerships strategies that fulfill the organization’s mission of ensuring that there are always refugees at the table as equal partners.

 Nili most recently co-authored Measuring What Matters: Piloting a Self-Assessment of Integration Outcomes by and for Forcibly Displaced People, a report from Refugee Congress, Refugee Council USA, and World Relief, that evaluates improved metrics for measuring integration. Prior to her work with Refugee Congress, Nili was a Researcher and Project Manager at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) and the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research at Georgetown University, where her multi stakeholder projects included complex humanitarian emergencies; the intersections of forced migration, food security and environmental degradation in the Horn of Africa and Persian Gulf regions; and the use of open-source data for predictive modeling of forced migration movements. She has also worked with the Capital Area Food Bank, the UN Refugee Agency in Washington, D.C., and Human Rights First. Nili previously served as an Advisor for Concordia, an organization that builds and sustains cross-sector partnerships for social impact, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Refugee Council USA.

Nili holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from Loyola University Chicago and a Master of Arts in German and European Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, along with a Certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies from ISIM.

“As the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, I believe advocacy is at its strongest when individuals who once sought refuge lead the conversations that create welcoming communities. It is an honor and a privilege to work alongside Refugee Congress advocates who are changing the way we think of advocacy.”