Farah Haseen

Farah Haseen is an event organizer based in New Jersey with 14 years of experience in the field. Born and raised in Bangladesh, she earned a master's degree there in 2002 and began her career as a kindergarten teacher before working as a humanitarian assistance worker in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2007 on a World Bank-funded project. After returning to Bangladesh, she joined USAID's health program and worked with organizations including ActionAid and the European Commission. After immigrating to the United States and getting married, Haseen started her event organizing business. She also founded a Bengali Cultural School to teach children in her community language, poetry, music, and dance, and she established a community television channel known as Channel 52. Haseen organizes the Purple Festival, an annual event in March that recognizes outstanding women from different communities in education, health, and other sectors. She worked with the state of New Jersey on COVID information and Census 2020 efforts, for which she and her organization received an award. Haseen serves on the Board of Education as a teacher and attributes her success to the support of her parents. She is fluent in Bengali and English and maintains the website www.purplefestival.com.