Her writing has appeared in Pakistani and international publications. She graduated from Harvard in 2013 with an honors degree in Literature. During her time in college, she wrote for the Harvard Political Review, The Harvard Crimson and worked at the Harvard College Women's Center. Upon graduating she received the Harvard Foundation Distinguished Senior Award for her work on intercultural and race relations at the college. She is a recipient of Harvard College's Jaromir Ledecky International Fellowship Program in Journalism through which she developed documentary shorts on microfinance initiatives in Ghana. Prior to Harvard, she was a Pakistan representative for the British Council's Global Changemakers program.