Nana Amos

Director of Community Outreach & Engagement

Co-Director, Democracy & Dialogues Initiative

Nana Amos has over two decades of experience in international program development and management, human rights programming, higher education administration, planning and budgeting. She currently co-directs the University’s Democracy and Dialogues Initiative (DDI), as well as directs Community Outreach and Engagement initiatives for Dodd Human Rights Impact Programs, Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute.  The Democracy and Dialogues Initiative works to increase democratic and civic capacity and fosters community dialogues on critical issues.  Prior to her work with Dodd Human Rights Impact, she worked with the UNESCO Chair & Institute of Comparative Human Rights managing UConn’s ANC Partnership project, and programs in Oral History, Archives, and Comparative Human Rights. In this capacity she was a founding member of CHRONE (the Coalition of Human Rights Organizations in New England, now the Connecticut Human Rights Partnership) – a diverse array of stakeholders from the educational, governmental, and civil society sectors committed to advancing a culture of human rights. She also serves as President of the Connecticut Chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), and Chairs the Connecticut Collaborative on Poverty, Criminal Justice, and Race.  She received her bachelor’s and her master’s in public administration from UConn’s School of Public Policy along with a certificate in Nonprofit Management.