Najiyah Diana Maxfield began her career teaching history and English, both in the States and overseas. Her debut novel, Sophia’s Journal, is a YA time-travel adventure that is being taught in several schools across North America and as far away as Amman, Jordan. Najiyah is Head of Publishing at Rabata’s Daybreak Press and co-author with Anse Tamara Gray of Project Lina: Bringing our Whole Selves to Islam. She teaches a Rabata women’s halaqa, at the Ribaat Academic Institute, and the Rabateens program.