She received her MFA in film from Columbia University, and her BA from UC Berkeley. She has produced over a dozen short films and is the writer of three feature scripts. Scheherazade, a short film that she wrote and directed, screened at over twenty five international film festivals and has won seven awards including Best Short Film at Champs-Elysées Film Festival. She is the co-founder of Maaa Art a film and theater company that develops and distributes works by immigrant artists. She has written and directed several promotional videos for Maaa Film. Additionally, she has written and produced two plays for Maaa Theater, which were staged in New York, San Francisco, and Dallas.