Sharmeen Shamsi studied and graduated from the Alimiyyah program at the Institute of Islamic Education in Elgin, IL in 2007. She has a bachelors degree in education from Benedictine University in Lisle, IL and graduated in 2011. She taught Arabic, Seerah, Tafsir, and Fiqh in various Islamic institutes for women over the years. She recently obtained ijazah in the ten variant recitations of the Qur’an.