Dr. Reza holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from California State University, Long Beach. Her research focuses on social justice, educational equity, and the experiences of immigrant families in U.S. schools. She has served as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Early Childhood Education Research and the International Journal of Changes in Education and is an editorial assistant at Literary Mama.

She is the author of The Effects of the September 11 Terrorist Attack on Pakistani American Parental Involvement in U.S. Schools (Lexington Books, 2015), as well as the children’s books Mary and Her New Friends (2019) and Mary and the World Table (2024). She also edited Diversity and Inclusion in Educational Institutions (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022).

Dr. Reza holds master’s degrees in early childhood education from California State University, Long Beach and in Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She also holds a Montessori diploma from Association Montessori Internationale, completed a certificate program in diversity and inclusion at Cornell University, took graduate-level coursework at Harvard University, and has presented at several round table symposiums held at the University of Oxford.

She serves as instructional faculty at the American College of Education (ACE) and is a member of Childhood Education International (CEI) and American Association of University Women (AAUW).