About

Nada Zakaria holds an MBA from Bellarmine University and master's degree in Pan-African Studies from the University of Louisville. Nada is a Sudanese-American who spent her childhood in Sweden.

Nada earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Louisville in Political Science. At U of L, she worked as Public Relations Officer, Secretary of the Pan-African Studies Department and Graduate Assistant for the Center on Race and Inequality. The mission of CRI is to promote research and teaching to University of Louisville faculty, staff, and students as well as community members and officials who construct and pass public policy on critical issues impacting black populations.

After graduating from U of L, Nada worked at the Center For Neighborhoods, a 501(c)3 Civic Engagement Organization. She helped facilitate a 12-week leadership education program called “The Neighborhood Institute,” which connected Louisville citizens to resources to improve their neighborhoods. One of her favorite projects at CFN was managing the Louisville “P.A.I.N.T. Project.” PAINT’s purpose was to bring neighborhoods, residents, and contemporary visual artists together to create a new site-specific, neighborhood-based public art project in West Louisville.

Nada obtained a Diversity Certification from the Society for Diversity and serves as the Communications Chair of New Leaders Council-KY. While studying business in Bellarmine's MBA program, she became increasingly interested in marketing and the ways it is shaped by human behavior and public opinion. She previously worked as the Search Marketing Strategist at Doe-Anderson, the oldest advertising agency in the United States. At Doe, Nada led and developed all SEO strategies for Maker’s Mark, Central Bank, OhioHealth, Zeochem, and more.

Nada decided to jump into a start-up to sharpen her technical chops. To do that, Nada led company-wide SEO efforts at NYC financial tech start-up, Better. Today Nada leads an amazing SEO team at a fast-paced NYC agency called Croud, and is continuing to learn and grow every single day.