Mina is completing her JD at the University of Toronto, where she feeds her passion for written and oral advocacy through a variety of subject areas. Mina has volunteered her time to the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law Review, was a working group member for the International Human Rights Program, and wrote for Ultra Vires, the faculty’s student-run newspaper. She has successfully represented her school in the Hicks Morley Labour & Employment Law Moot as well as the Harold J. Fox Intellectual Property Moot, where she and her partner won Best Appellant Factum.

Prior to law school, Mina earned her Honours Bachelor of Science at the Toronto Metropolitan University, where she majored in Biomedical Sciences. In addition to placing on the Dean’s List each year of her degree, Mina explored a wide variety of her interests during her undergraduate studies: she reviewed research on Toronto Metropolitan University’s Research Ethics Board, volunteered at the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic, and wrote articles to facilitate science communication to a lay audience. Mina speaks English and Pashto.