Maryam Manteghi has a talent and ability to communicate what most people would deeply relate to but have a hard time articulating. By heritage and conviction a Baha'i, Maryam's ethnic mix includes Jewish, Persian and Kurdish. She's fluent in English, French and Farsi and competent in Bosnian. A graduate of the University of Toronto and the University of Windsor, she also studied human rights law at Oxford. She's practiced immigration law in Canada, worked for United Nations organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and clerked in The Hague, the Netherlands with the International Tribunal of the Former Yugoslavia. She currently runs her own law firm.