Background
She was born in Tehran to a respected family of Naqshbandi Sufis.
She was born in Tehran to a respected family of Naqshbandi Sufis.
She attended San Francisco State University and Northeastern University, and received her Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1987.
Her family fled Iran in 1980 and sought refuge in Sulaimaniya and Baghdad for two years, and then moved to the United States in 1982. She joined the Kurdish National Congress (KNC) in 1991 and was instrumental in publicizing Kurdish issues in the United States. Her last post was the Executive Vice President of the Kurdish National Congress of North America.
She organized a conference on the independence of Kurdistan in November 2005 in Iraqi Kurdistan.
In January 2006, She chaired the committee on Democracy and Freedom for All Iranians and Kurdish Human & National Rights and through her efforts the first conference of the committee was held in the United States Senate building. She was also a moderator of a conference organized by The Kurdish Front for Promoting Democracy and Freedom in Syria in Washington in 2006.
She died due to an asthma attack on July 24, 2006 in Millersville, Maryland.