Complex sentence: Shahidi was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to an African-American mother, Keri Salter Shahidi, and an Iranian-American father, Afshin Shahidi, a photographer who was from Shahidi family generation.
Split into simpler sentences: Shahidi was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to an African-American mother, Keri Salter Shahidi, and an Iranian-American father, Afshin Shahidi. Her father is a photographer who was from Shahidi family generation.