I'm committed to bringing alive and sharing with others, the lived experience of our fundamental oneness with the natural world. I'm a British-born Muslim, a spiritual evolutionary, and lover of our one shared home, planet Earth.
I emigrated from the UK to the United States in 2007. From 1993-2013, I was part of an international intentional spiritual community, based on the eastern enlightenment lineage of Sri Ramana Maharshi. Through the course of those 20 years, I experienced the heights, depths and pitfalls of spiritual awakening, community, and the possibilities of living beyond a separate sense of self, and bringing into being with others, what Jeff refers to in his book, 'The Soul of a New Self.'
In parallel to my spiritual journey, I have always been concerned about how we live on, and impact the planet. I hold an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, London, a BSc. in Chemistry and Environmental Science, and certificates in 'Climate Change and Health' from Yale School of Public Health, and 'Health Effects of Climate Change' from HarvardX.
I have worked in the UK and US sustainability sectors throughout my career, and in 2007, I was recognized by then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, for scaling a local sustainability project to a national program in the UK, in partnership with The Body Shop, Comic Relief and The Home Office.
In the US, in 2019, as the program manager at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, I co-authored a paper entitled "Integrative Medicine is a Good Prescription for Patients and Planet." In 2020, I moved to Colorado, where I worked as a Sustainability Coordinator at the City of Longmont for two years. As of January 2022, I returned to work remotely for the Osher Center at HMS/BWH, where I have a new role as Director of Programming in Integrative Medicine and Planetary Health.