Bio:
Mariam Mengistie is a community organizer and leader. She leads the Orlando Bread for the World Team and is deeply involved in building Bread’s advocacy strategies in central Florida.
Mengiste previously served as Executive Director of Missions at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Orlando, Florida, where she led poverty alleviation strategies and connected community partners and volunteers. She formerly worked as program and communications manager for non-profit organizations in Ethiopia, where she built networks of local, international, non-profit, and governmental organizations in relief and development programs. She also worked as development aid policy adviser to European Parliament members in Brussels.
Mengistie holds a Master of Arts in Politics of Development from the Institute of Social Studies in The Netherlands. She is Methodist. Orlando, Florida.