Ep 14: Blazing Your Career through Mentorship with Dr. Uzma Syed ID/ALIGN US

Choosing a career is hard enough. Having a mentor to guide and help you with your chosen career makes all the difference and keeps you right on track. Today, our guest is Dr. Uzma Syed who is a true Muslimah trailblazer.  She is the President of Align Us, a not-for-profit organization that offers unique mentorship opportunities to help foster career development for high school students. Align Us is an after school program which helps students bridge classroom to real-world experiences. Join us in this episode as Dr. Uzma Syed shares her experience in becoming a public figure and trailblazer in her community.  She tells us about the difficult road of pursuing her doctorate career without a mentor and how that experience inspired her non profit. Her ultimate goal is to bridge cultural and societal gaps so that all American citizens have an active role in their community at hand. In this Episode, We Talk About: Her activism in having Islamic Holidays recognized state wide The huge benefits of mentorship to young students Advise for blazing your career Getting the right resources Where to reach Dr. Uzma Syed: Instagram @uzmasworld Dr. Uzma Syed's Bio: Dr. Uzma Syed is a board-certified infectious disease specialist, an education leader and a political activist. She cares a lot about education, from directing a nonprofit called Align Us that provides mentorship and career development to serving on school board committees as an advisor. She's a rising Muslim civic figure in Nassau community politics, she co-founded the eighth-holiday coalition, served on the commissioner's community council, and is recognized by the legislature as a female trailblazer. She also ran as a school board trustee candidate in 2018 all while being a proud and visible Hijab Muslim woman. Want to hear more stories from amazing Muslim Women? Please subscribe on Apple Podcast, Stitcher or on your favorite podcast platform. Get notified so you never miss out! Join The Strategy Room inside Defiance Academy → The Strategy Room