Soofia Ahmed Soofia Ahmed has led teaching initiatives for street children in India, taught in UK Islamic schools, and has taught in both public and private schools in the USA. She has also spoken at Amnesty International, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and Islamic Society of North America conferences. She was one in 16 American students to receive an internship regarding the promotion of religiously pluralistic mentalities through Interfaith Youth Core and was invited to the White House by Hillary Clinton as part of the Generation Change youth initiative. She was invited to Oprah Winfrey and Good Morning America shows to speak regarding issues of faith. Through her college, she received the prestigious Founder’s Day Medal of Honor and the Niebuhr Center’s Gandhi Internship for International Justice.

In Scotland, she worked as the Black and minority ethnic lead support worker at Inverness Women’s Aid. She was Inverness Masjid’s coordinator of women’s, children’s and new Muslim affairs and outreach.

Soofia, resides in the Chicagoland area with her husband and three bairns. She is a teacher by profession and passion, a real estate agent and holds a masters in project management. She has been a Ribaat student and volunteer since 2016 and currently is the Rabata Chicago chapter lead. She teaches the next generation of positive cultural change makers through Rabata’s Dragonflies and Rabateens youth programs and is a Rabata halaqa teacher. She also serves as secretary on the Rabata Board of Directors.