Shaheena Shahid graduated with a master’s in Foreign Language Education and ESL from  Rutgers Graduate School of Education. She is a current Part Time Lecturer teaching human rights and ESL and has previously  taught Africana diaspora. She is also a current high school instructor. She was also a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil teaching in the Federal University of Piaui. As an undergraduate  at Rutgers, her major was AMESALL (comparative option between South Asia and Middle East) and Middle Eastern Studies and additionally minoring in both South Asian Studies, and Women and Gender Studies. She is also TOEFL certified as well as possessing an Arabic translation certification. She is also fluent in six languages. She has worked in over orphanages, refugee camps and shanty towns across the globe, from Peru to India to Jordan.

 

“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.”― Assata Shakur