Aniqa Nawabi joined MCN as its  Executive Director on October 2018. She brought nearly a decade of experience in non-profit management and policy to this role.

Prior to joining MCN, Aniqa served as the Director of Development at Chhaya Community Development Corporation, a non-profit organization that works on the housing and immigrant rights of the South Asian community in New York City. As the lead fundraiser, she raised a budget of $1 million+ each year and helped expand and grow Chhaya's reach among the individual donor and institutional funder landscape in New York City. She first started her career as an Assistant Research Scholar at New York University where she studied post-conflict states and worked on international development projects in Afghanistan.

As an immigrant from Bangladesh and growing up as a Muslim American teenager in Queens, New York, she saw firsthand the struggles Muslim communities face in the post-9/11 era. Aniqa grew up in Germany and South Africa before coming to the United States and holds a Masters in Public Administration degree from New York University's Wagner School of Public Service and a B.A. from the City University of New York-Queens College. She is a mother of two, an avid traveler, and speaks Bengali, Hindi, and Farsi.