
Meet Our SmileSquad

Shereen Youssef
Founder Executive / Director

Radwa Moussa-Youssef
Co-Founder Program / Director

Shareef Amer
Board Member

Shereen Founder & Executive Smile Director
A proud new parent and mom, Shereen is currently the founding director for Create a Smile. She graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Finance from Cal State Long Beach in 2003 and continued her education with an Executive Masters in Business in Strategic & Organizational Leadership from Pepperdine University in 2008. She has extensive experience in banking, healthcare administration & business development. She made the switch to nonprofit 6 years ago when her nephew was diagnosed with childhood cancer. Her passion and love for children has become a primary goal to bring influence to many children through her efforts at Create A Smile. Shereen is currently a proud member of the AFPOC, Association of Fundraising Professionals in OC, and sits as a board member of The Majlis under the leadership of Shaykh Jamaal Diwan & Shaykha Muslema Purmel. She is grateful and blessed for husband, Fouad Elgohari as they hobble through the first year of parenthood with their son, Umar Al-Faruq.
Radwa Moussa-Youssef Co-Founder & Program Smile Director
Radwa is behind all smiles created at Create A Smile. Radwa graduated with her Business Administration degree from Cairo Egypt, Ain Shams University in 2004 and currently runs a real estate company with her husband Tamer. She is a full-time mother of three beautiful children, Zein (12), Malak (11) and Aya (3). Her first-hand experience with childhood cancer began in 2013 when Zein was diagnosed with Stage 4 Neuroblastoma. She joined Create A Smile to bring about change in the cancer world that she knows is needed. Her recent accomplishment earlier this year, was becoming a published author to her book ‘Zein – A tale of darkness and light’ published in Arabic and became a bestseller in Egypt and the Middle East Region. Radwa is currently translating her book in English to continue to spread her message of hope across the globe.