Maryamu Aminu

Maryamu Aminu is Assistant Director for U.S. Government Relations at The ONE Campaign.  In this role, she is responsible for developing and managing the organization’s engagement with Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives to help build bipartisan support for critical lifesaving and development initiatives relating to U.S. policy towards Africa.  These include support U.S. global health programs, agricultural development, basic education, relief from crushing national debt, economic development, trade and multilateral development instruments. Co-founded in 2002 by singer and activist, Bono, ONE is an advocacy organization dedicated to eradicating extreme poverty and AIDS in Africa.

Previously, Maryamu worked for the late Congressman Tom Lantos, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, where she was Director of the Africa Region and Global Health for the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, and Congressional Coordinator for the Lantos ‘Humanity in Action’ European Fellowship Program. 

Before joining the Lantos Office in November 2001, she was the African Diplomatic Corps Fellow at the Constituency for Africa (CFA), a non-profit organization dedicated to improving U.S. policy towards Africa and fostering increased relations between Africans and Americans.

Born and raised in Nigeria, Maryamu graduated from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth, UK, with a degree in International Relations.  She also has a graduate degree in International Politics from Aberystwyth, majoring in Critical Security Studies and Human Rights.  Her Masters’ dissertation explored the question of whether regional organizations can act as mechanisms for security in the post-Cold War era, examining the role of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in the resolution of the Liberian conflict.

Follow Maryamu on her blog at http://www.one.org/blog/author/maryamuaminu/