Biography

Brief biography of Dr. Nassim Assefi:

Nassim Assefi, a 2nd generation Iranian-American, is an internist specializing in women’s health and global medicine. For the last decade, she has been an academic in Seattle, a humanitarian aid worker and underground salsa dance teacher in Kabul, an aspiring musician in Havana, and a novelist in Istanbul. In 2009, she was selected as a TEDGlobal Fellow, and curated TEDxRainier in Seattle on 10-10-10. She has traveled to more than 50 countries, and is based in Seattle when she is not abroad. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, University of Washington Medical School, and Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s residency program. She is the author of numerous scientific publications; Aria is her first novel. She has just finished writing a second novel set in modern-day Kabul entitled Say I Am You. Other projects include: caring for patients at The Country Doctor Community Health Clinics, doing torture evaluations of refugees seeking asylum, active involvement with Hedgebrook, Whit Press, and the Guttmacher Institute, and living as a thrillionaire.

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