Amira is the Head of Payments Growth at the Solana Foundation, where she joined in January 2022 as the Foundation’s first Head of Policy. Solana is a top five blockchain and processes more monthly stablecoin volume than any other blockchain. In her role, Amira’s team works with the world’s largest payout providers, remittance companies, and P2P platforms moving stablecoins on it. Before Solana, Amira founded Glow, a venture-backed creator payouts company acquired by Libsyn (Nasdaq: LSYN) in 2021. Previously, she served in the Obama White House as Senior Advisor to the Deputy National Security Advisor and as a speechwriter to the Secretary of State.

Amira also sits on the board of the Helium Foundation, the driving force between the world’s largest community-build wireless network, and on the board of Cambridge Day, her city’s local nonprofit newspaper.