Our Rock Stars
Zahid Syed
Founder & BeingCharitable
A Mentor, motivational speaker and being charitable by nature. He loves charity work and regularly conducts clothing, shoes, food and disaster-relief drives for local & international charities. He started BeingCharitable in 2021 with hopes that he could encourage students and young professionals to consider their ability to make an impact for those in need around the world.
Zahid graduated from CUNY with a Bachelor’s in IS and from Aspen University with an MBA. Apart from BeingCharitable, he works as Site Reliability Ops for Priceline.com-Booking holdings.
Zahid is an active member of ICPC & ICF Muslim communities. He is also the founder of Pakistan Cultural Assn. of NT (PCANT) & a b2c portal: The Lounge Classifieds (TLC). He is a part of multiple cricket-groups and often throws live-cricket viewing parties at home.
Aafia Syed
Program Director- MD
Aafia holds a Bachelor’s from Johns Hopkins University in Writing Seminars & a Dual Master’s in Early Childhood General and Special Education from Bank Street College of Education. Currently a preschool teacher, she has extensive experience working with children from every background and is especially dedicated to ensuring the rights of children who have special needs or have undergone trauma at a young age. At BeingCharitable, among other responsibilities, Aafia works on projects meant to empower children no matter how young to become real change makers in the world.
Hiba I. Fazal
Program Director-NJ
Hiba graduated from Rutgers University, NJ with a Bachelors & Masters in Social Work Management. She is naturally passionate about helping people around her. Now, she is taking her passion to another level and responsible for community outreach and fundraising campaigns for BeingCharitable-NJ chapter.