Sam co-founded LendforPeace.org, the first web portal where individuals could lend to entrepreneurs in the Middle East in the context of peace. Before that Sam worked as a Senior Program Director at PlaNet Finance with a focus on US microfinance initiatives. He also did correspondence work for the Clinton Foundation and policy work for Senator Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT). In the last five years Sam has spent twelve months living in Israel as well as five months studying Arabic in Egypt.
Sam graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Modern Middle East Studies and Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He is currently a student at Yale Law School and an editor of the Yale Journal of International Law.
