[3] She is the co-director and co-founder of the International Association of Sufism (IAS),[4] founder of the International Sufi Women Organization,[5] the executive editor of Sufism: An Inquiry.
[6] Nahid Angha is the main representative[7] of the IAS to the United Nations (for Non Governmental Organization with the Department of Public Information: NGO/DPI).
Nahid Angha is the daughter of Persian Sufi master Moulana Shah Maghsoud Sadiq Angha[8][9] the Sufi master of the Uwaiysi lineage.
She holds doctorate degrees in Psychology and Islamic Studies, and taught as adjunct professor at the Dominican University of California and California Institute of Integral Studies.
She created the Building Bridges of Understanding series program with the Dominican University of California that hosted many prominent speakers including the Iranian Nobel Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi.