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Research has found that participation in voluntary services is significantly predictive of better mental and physical health life satisfaction, self-esteem, happiness, lower depressive symptoms, psychological distress, and mortality and functional inability. -  Published online 2017 Jul 11. doi: 10.1186/s12889-017-4561-8

• Volunteer for HCHW, a project for street children in India, 2003 - made a film about children living on the streets and railway platforms

• President - The Muslim Caucus of the North Carolina Democratic Party.

• State Executive Committee Member, North Carolina State Democratic Party

• Executive Board Member - UNITED INDIAN COMMUNITY FORUM (Charlotte, NC)

• Member Board of Advisors - asiatimes.us

• Volunteered for Raise Against Hunger

• Volunteered for Blood Donation with the American Red Cross

• Volunteered as Election Co-ordinator (Chicago Board of Elections)

• Volunteered for serving food for the Mens Shelter (Charlotte, NC)

• Volunteer for Point-in-Time Research for Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, NC (Housing & Homelessness Research)

• Volunteered for United Way Hands on Charlotte

• Member of Advisory Board for Mecklenburg County Information Services & Technology Committee

• Ex-Member of the Charlotte International Cabinet

• Ex-Member of Charlotte Moves Mobility Task Force

• MotoAmerica Course Marshal - Atlanta, GA

• FIFA 2025 Volunteer - UDC Charlotte