Vahid Dejwakh has had the honor of  serving as Business Manager and board member of COAR since July 2006. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in Religious Studies and an honors thesis that fused the works of Baruch Spinoza and Herman Hesse, and now works as a Research Analyst for a high-tech market research company in Scottsdale, Arizona. While at ASU, Vahid served as an econ and math tutor to ASU athletes, was an Undergraduate Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, the President of the African Student Association, and the CEO of an award-winning entrepreneurial venture to commercialize machines that turn humid air into potable water. Vahid has also had the honor of being in the first graduating class of the Pat Tillman Leadership Through Action program, and now also volunteers for the Pat Tillman Foundation. Born and raised in Niger, West Africa, Vahid has been blessed early on with the realization that life can be both intensely joyful when there is unity and devastatingly unjust when there isn't. He has since focused on increasing instances of the former.