Afshan Hashmi 

Afshan Hashmi was born in Karachi, Pakistan and moved to New York when she was 12 years old. She graduated from CUNY Queens College with a bachelor’s degree in Food and Nutrition. She began her pursuit of Classical Islamic learning at Sameera Institute in 2018 and studied Quran, Hadith, and Fiqh and is still continuing to study other subjects. Afshan has been a TA for courses at Sameera Institute and supports the team by assisting with a variety of tasks when needed.