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Ghazal

COO

Ghazaleh “Ghazal” Shokouhaghaei is the Chief Operations Officer at NowMattersNow.org, where she brings both heart and strategy to our team. With advanced degrees in counseling psychology and education, she blends lived experience with clinical insight to help guide our mission. Ghazal leads our expanding Peer Meeting program and works behind the scenes to ensure our systems run smoothly and sustainably. Having grown up in a culture where mental health was deeply stigmatized, she knows firsthand how hard it can be to ask for help—and how powerful it is to receive it. That’s why she’s devoted to making support more accessible, real, and human for others.