She practiced family medicine in a community health center in Austin for seven years and urgent care in Iowa City and Austin for the last three.Her medical and activist roots come from her family, who are physicians. They established a free medical clinic in Bryan, Texas and maintained an ethnically and economically diverse family medicine clinic there for 40 years.Amina took the less traveled road to become a family physician. After college, she worked as a union organizer, learned West African dance, and spent a year in India and East and South Africa. Amina found herself drawn to the healing aspects of medicine and went on to pursue her medical degree. She is fluent in Spanish, Gujarati, and English.