Canadian writer-director from Calgary, Alberta based in Brooklyn. She studied Film and History & Literature at Harvard College and through film, she seeks to close distances between people while celebrating the differences among them. As a South Asian Muslim woman and daughter of East African Asian immigrants, she is drawn to stories of diaspora, identity, justice, and human resilience. Her 2021 documentary, LONG DISTANCE, about migrant workers at an Albertan meat plant, won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Alberta Short Film at the 2021 Calgary International Film Festival. Her 2023 documentary, MAMA OF MANYATTA—which screened at the 2023 Pan African Film Festival, Essence Film Festival & Zanzibar International Film Festival, with a Special Jury Mention—follows an extraordinary woman fighting HIV & gender-based-violence in a Kenyan slum. And her 2023 fiction film, INSIDE JOB, is about an Indian woman who suspects her African domestic workers of stealing jewelry in 1970s Nairobi. The film premiered at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival and has screened alongside MAMA OF MANYATTA at the Nanji Family Foundation Auditorium at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, the Unseen Nairobi theater in Kenya, and The Cardel Theatre in Calgary. She is currently developing several projects including her first feature, a coming-of-age drama centered on an intergenerational immigrant family.