Farzana EbrahimiFarzana Ebrahimi was born July 1981 in Kandahar, Afghanistan to an educated and open-minded family. Her mother was a teacher and her father a hydraulic engineer. Farzana founded Kandahar's Health and Development Organization to support women in Kandaar when she was only 24 years old. She trained hundreds of women in educational projects after the Taliban was removed from Afghanistan from 2001-2010. Farzana worked for over a decade for gender equality and was a women's rights activist in Kandahar. She moved to northern California in 2010 and continued to support Afghan women from there. Farzana Ebrahimi was the woman of the month in June 2010 as a remarkable woman in Lifetime TV in America because of her efforts for Afghan women's rights.Gender equality was her passion when she was only 8 years old. Farzana took off her hijab in the middle of a hot summer in Kandahar and ran from school to home. While winds touched her hair, she asked herself why she needed to wear a Hijab, while boys did not? In the closed society of Kandahar her ideas were rejected. She believed in women's rights and wanted to bring change for women in Kandahar and continued her path. Farzana received an honorable bachelor's degree in leadership from Northwood University of Texas. Farzana has loved writing since childhood and spent long years indoors writing about all the events in Kandahar. She was jailed at home as a teenage girl by the Taliban from 1996-2001. Farzana Ebrahimi began her professional writing career when she moved in California. Read More Read Less