While her parents wanted Shabir and her sister to think independently, the environment around them expected more traditional actions from women.
[1] After graduation, she was an intern at Merrill Lynch, and then worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and the investment company BlackRock.
[3] In 2013 Shabir and her husband, Ish Syed, co-founded LearnDistrict a company to make educational video games.
[5] The camp was started in 2014 when Shabir noticed the gender gap in applicants for jobs in the video game industry.
[1] In 2014, GamesIndustry.biz included Shabir in their people of the year list in recognition for her work with Girls Make Games.