About Anbar

[Pronouns: she/ her/ hers]

As a certified coach, consultant, facilitator, advocate, and community-oriented leader, Anbar Mahar is on a lifelong mission to help organizations and communities through capacity building and organizational development. She spent close to twenty years of her career orchestrating results in the nonprofit sector, specializing in the American Muslim community.

Anbar currently serves as a Co-Executive Director and Capacity Building Lead at RVC, a capacity-building organization that promotes social justice by cultivating leaders of color, strengthening organizations led by communities of color, and fostering collaboration between diverse communities. In this capacity, she is responsible for executing internal organizational development, organization-wide coordination, and financial accountability. Anbar holds a master’s degree in Public Administration with a focus on Nonprofit Management and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies. Whenever she’s not coaching or doing capacity building for nonprofits, she enjoys reading, participating in online dance classes, or scrapbooking.