AMIR FAROHKI is Chief Operating Officer of the College Advising Corps, an organization working to increase the number of low-income, underrepresented students who enter and complete college. Previously, Mr. Farohki was Founder and Executive Director of GeorgiaForward, a non-partisan, non-profit working to improve the state of Georgia by en- gaging business, political, academic and civil leaders to collaboratively shape a statewide policy agenda. Mr. Farohki is a Term Member with the Council on Foreign Relations and a 2011 Marshall Memorial Fellow, and serves on the Boards of the Charles Drew Charter School, The Galloway School and the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition.
Mr. Farohki earned his bachelor’s degree in Polical Science from Duke University and his juris doctorate from Duke University School of Law.
