Seif Abou Zaid, an Egyptian national, is a Political Science graduating senior at the American University in Cairo (AUC). He is currently the Student Union President of AUC. He also works as a part-timer at the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement. He worked as an intern at the United States Agency for International Development. Other conferences he participated in are the Model United Nations, Model Arab League, Model Egyptian Parliament, and International Student Leadership Conference. He represented AUC at the International Conference on Experiential and Learning, and the United World Youth Conference in England. He is also the Founder of the First Student Radio in Egypt.