Anse Sana Mohiuddin serves as an Islamic Studies instructor at the Ribaat Academic Institute. She holds a History degree and a minor in Religious Studies from Texas A&M University and a graduate degree in Marital and Family Therapy from Northeastern Illinois University. In 2015 she graduated from Jamia Zainab lil Banaat, Lusaka Zambia, with a degree in Islamic Studies (ijāza in hadith, tafsīr, fiqh, and sīra).
Born in Canada and raised in Texas, after undergraduate university, Anse Sana moved to Chicago, where she worked simultaneously on her Islamic studies degree and graduate school. Along with her educational pursuits, she volunteered from a young age with various local and national organizations. She worked closely with the Muslim Youth of North America (MYNA) during high school in both her hometown and on a national level, and chaired the national MYNA conference at ISNA at the age of 17.
In college, she worked with the Muslim Students Association (MSA) and was the sisters’ coordinator for her university in her final year of undergraduate studies, and volunteered with youth and adult programs after moving to Chicago. She currently works as a female religious scholar for the MCC community in Chicago and runs her own therapy practice, Sound Hearts Therapy.
Anse Sana has taught Arabic with Ribaat since 2015, along with the 99 Names of Allah ﷻ and Conversations with the Prophet ﷺ. She also teaches a Rabata halaqa.
