Nada is from the greater Princeton area in New Jersey. After graduating Magna Cum Laude from Boston University with a B.A. in economics and minors in public policy analysis and computer science, Nada worked as a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she supported projects focusing on racial discrimination in the American criminal legal system. She then worked as a data analyst at Bloomberg, where she managed financial data focusing on the healthcare industry in the U.S. and contributed to data-driven news initiatives. Nada's undergraduate internship experience includes international development policy at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), foreign affairs research at the Wilson Center, civil rights advocacy at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and a summer on Capitol Hill. This past summer, Nada worked as an graduate intern with the Social Safety Nets Global Solutions Group at the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C. She is passionate about evidence-based policy and increasing representation of Muslim Americans in policy and media. She is a recipient of the Boston University Departmental Prize in Economics and was a Truman Scholarship finalist. Having spent time in Egypt, Nada is fluent in Arabic and proficient in French. In her free time, she enjoys running, playing tennis, making art, and contributing to various media outlets as a freelance writer.