Zerqa AbidZerqa has left the team.
Executive ConsultantWe will miss her.

Zerqa Abid is a mother, a social/political activist, an interfaith youth mentor, a blogger, a TV producer/director, a media consultant, a campaign maker and CEO of her business, ZAPS Technocrats Inc. In the past, Abid has worked at the American news giant, NBC News as News Editor and at ARY Digital Network of Pakistan as the General Manager of The City Channel.

Through her overseas business ZAPSnet Consultancies Pvt. Ltd, she has successfully organized international trade and consumer shows. Her consumer show, "Expo Juniors," in 2006 was recognized as the first expo and an historic event for children in Pakistan. It drew 800,000 people in three days to the Expo Center, Karachi.

Abid has been working with Project Sakinah since the time of its conception. Along with media and marketing experience, she also brings with her a 20-plus-years experience of nonprofit community organizations and mobilization in US and overseas.

Abid is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of North Carolina State University. She majored in Mass Communication, TV production, and minored in Journalism. She received "Norma & Wally Ausley Merit Scholarship" for being "The Outstanding Student of Mass Communications."

She is happily married with three daughters. She gives credit of all her accomplishments to her parents and her extraordinary husband.