granted asylum as political refugees. Raised in a multi-cultural conservative family, she has two sisters; her parents separated when she was in middle school. Ghanizada is a graduate of James Madison High School in Vienna, Virginia and has a degree in English and Communications from Virginia ...
“My mother would always say,‘The operative word is “through.”’Meaning that no matter what obstacles came my way, I knew I would get through. That helped me get through the draining architecture studio classes, around naysayers who couldn’t see a black woman as a design leader, and ...