One of his many charitable projects includes an all-girls high school in Chandanaish, Bangladesh, for rural girls to receive an education, which otherwise was impossible for women in the area due to distance and poverty.
[citation needed] She attended high school at The King's Academy in West Palm Beach and went on to complete a Bachelor's degree in international relations from Emory University in 2009.
Mahfuz reported from the United Nations, providing Breaking news from the UN General Assembly, on US–Iran relations, the Crimean annexation and developments in Syria.
[6] Mahfuz won the Alliance of Women in Media's Gracie Award for Outstanding Producer in TV news in June 2015.
In 2015 and 2017, the Federation of Bangladeshi Associations in North America recognized Mahfuz for her work in mainstream journalism as a 2nd generation Bengali-American.