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Mubarakah is the daughter of Shareef and Atiyah Ibrahim, two pioneers of Dar-Islam movement in the 1960’s and 70’s in New York City State Street Mosque.  Mubarakah has traced her paternal lineage to the Bissa people of Togo, confirming her enslaved ancestors arrived as Muslims in America and despite the break in Islamic lineage is the second generation of 4 consecutive generations in her family born and raised Muslim in America.  She is a wife, mother of four children and grandmother of one.

From a young age Mubarakah has given dowah and classes on various aspects of Islam.  She began her interfaith and dowah efforts as a teenager going into schools talking about Islam to her peers and teaching classes for new shahada women at the age of 14.  She served as the President of The New England Muslim Sister Association (NEMSA) and as board member of Masjid Al-Islam (New Haven CT). 

Mubarakah is an international speaker in which she lectures, promotes, and conducts workshops on healthy living, business, Islam and Muslim American Culture. Her insight and knowledge has brought her as a presenter to Masjids, organizations and institutions throughout the world including Yale University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Rutgers University, Southern Connecticut State University, Eastern Connecticut State University and The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST - Thuwal, Saudi Arabia)

Education

She received her interdisciplinary Bachelor's Degree in Exercise Science, Public Health and Psychology from Southern Connecticut State University and throughout her 20-year career in health and fitness she has earned 13+ fitness and nutrition certifications including Women Specific Training, Pre and Post-Natal and Mat Science [for Yoga and Pilates] and Core Training Certifications. She is also a Master OASIS In The Overwhelm Trainer: A Professionally Recognized Stress Management Coach Training Program and a certified Yoga Teaching College Breath Work Coach. 

Mubarakah is a lifelong student of learning and studying Islam both formally and informally. She has always been in the pursuit of Islamic knowledge and understanding from an early age and has informally studied with and under various Sheik(ah), Ustad(ah) and Imams throughout her life.   Formally completed two years of her undergraduate degree in Islamic Studies with a focus on Hadith.