MEEt The Founders

Mena Nasiri

co-founder

Mena is an incoming college student. She is planning to study engineering and loves to make art in her free time. Some of her favorite books are the Ms. Marvel comics by G. Willow Wilson and Sana Amanat, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, and the Dune series by Frank Herbert.  

zena nasiri

co-founder

Zena is in her second year of college. She is passionate about social justice and advocacy work along with STEM. Her favorite books are The Lines We Cross by Randa-Abdel Fattah, The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X. 

We are Girls of the crescent

We are avid readers and love to spend time in school media centers and public libraries. However, we could rarely find books with female Muslim main characters that we could connect with, and grew up longing to see ourselves represented in literature. We decided to start this nonprofit organization to make sure that children like us will be able to read books with characters like themselves and to increase diversity in literature. ​