SHRIEN ALSHABASY

Shrien Alshabasy is currently a student at SUNY New Paltz, where she is majoring in English and double minoring in Film and Video Studies and Law and Politics. She has written for the Do Something organization, Penny & Mary, the Huffington Post and is currently a contributor on Mvslim.com. She has also had the honor to read her writings at St Joseph's College, The New School and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In her spare time, Shrien loves to create and compile videos, and photograph her surroundings. A native to Brooklyn and a first generation Egyptian-American, she is dying to get behind a camera to tell the stories of Arab-American and Muslim families throughout the United States. She has five chubby cats that she loves dearly.