Nasrin Husseini was born in Afghanistan and spent her childhood as a refugee in Iran.
[4] In 2010, she relocated to Toronto, Canada as a refugee due to discrimination she experienced as an educated woman in Afghanistan, and she enrolled at University of Guelph.
[7] She received a master of science degree in immunology in 2020[4][8] with her thesis Resilience of High Immune Responder Beef Cattle in the Context of Climate Change (2020).
After graduation, Husseini began working for the University of Guelph as a veterinary researcher in the immunology lab.
[4][8] In 2021, Husseini was volunteering for Hazara Humanitarian Services in Brampton, assisting the Hazara people from Afghanistan in settling in Canada;[7][4] and for the Bookies Youth Program, promoting Afghan literacy and storytelling for children.