Bay Area Community Services
Nazir Azami is an experienced operations coordinator currently working at Bay Area Community Services since November 2021, providing support for mental health and supportive housing services. Previously, Nazir served as admin support for the Alameda County Registrar of Voters, facilitating fair elections, and as an administrative assistant at ABC Security Service, managing payroll and billing. From July 2013 to June 2018, Nazir contributed to Tetra Tech/INL Justice Support Afghanistan as a project management/proposal writing advisor, enhancing the administrative systems of the Afghan Attorney General's Office by 95% over seven years. Early career experiences include roles at BBC Monitoring, leading a team of translators at PAE, and training election staff for the United Nations. Nazir holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature from Kabul University and a certification in Second Language Acquisition from Kansas City University.
Bay Area Community Services
BACS breaks the mental health, housing, and community barriers that hold people back. We are helping people experiencing mental health needs or housing crises, while balancing other complications like health needs, substance use, generational trauma, incarceration, poverty, and more. BACS does “whatever it takes” to create programs that meet community needs, integrating nearly seven decades of behavioral health expertise with our Housing First philosophy.