Experience

William James College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Teaching Faculty Fellow

  • Aug 2022 - Present



The Family & Youth Institute

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Community Educator

  • Feb 2012 - Present

  • Facilitated and created community education workshops for the American Muslim community around topics of mental health, parenting, and youth development• Contributed to op-ed articles related to American Muslim community issues, including "Coping with Substance Use Addiction in Ramadan" and "Disbelief, Trauma, & Betrayal: 3 Tips to Healing"

• Researcher

  • Feb 2012 - Present

  • Co-designed a 3-year national research project focused on increasing belonging for American Muslim youth in their local mosques, called iBelong (thefyi.org/ibelong)• Built and maintained relationships with community partners that include local community centers and national organizations, to assess needs of American Muslim adolescents • Raised over $150,000 from community donors and institutional support for the project



Boston Medical Center (BMC)

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Pre-doctoral Psychology Intern at The Center for Multicultural Training of Psychology

  • Sep 2021 - Aug 2022

  • Provide individual, couples, and family counseling services to a diverse client population• Attend weekly didactic seminars centering multicultural case conceptualization, identity presentations, assessment, family therapy, and design and delivery of culturally responsive mental health services• Prepared and presented at the Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds with intern cohort entitled, Decolonizing Your Practice: Rupture and Repair• Coordinate interdisciplinary care plan with psychiatrists, occupational therapists, caseworkers, and social workers to ensure client needs are met• Facilitated department-wide discussions around coping with racial trauma, with a focus on the book: My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathways to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem. • Participant in Achieving Culturally Competent and Equitable Substance Use Services (ACCESS), a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant program to identify, design, and implement a substance use disorder-focused quality improvement project examining race-related predictors of substance use treatment access



The University of Texas at Austin

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Instructor of Record - Intergroup Dialogue: Psychology of Race and Gender

  • Aug 2019 - May 2021



Starfish Family Services

• Psychology Intern

  • Mar 2016 - Jul 2016



Institute for Social Research

• Norway
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jul 2015 - Oct 2015

  Supervisors: Jamie Griffin, Ph.D. (PI) and Paula Fomby, Ph.D. (PI) Panel Study of Income Dynamics- Event History Calendar & Child Development Supplement Supervisors: Jamie Griffin, Ph.D. (PI) and Paula Fomby, Ph.D. (PI) Panel Study of Income Dynamics- Event History Calendar & Child Development Supplement



University of Michigan-Dearborn

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lab Manager/Research Assistant

  • Jan 2013 - Mar 2015

  Supervisor: Muniba Saleem, Ph.D. (PI)Intergroup Bias and ConflictSupervisor: Robert Hymes, Ph.D.Ethnic-Racial Variation in Response to Positive and Negative Feedback Supervisor: Muniba Saleem, Ph.D. (PI)Intergroup Bias and ConflictSupervisor: Robert Hymes, Ph.D.Ethnic-Racial Variation in Response to Positive and Negative Feedback



Family Resource Center

• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Case Manager Assistant

  • Sep 2011 - Dec 2011