Abedin was born on July 28, 1976,[8] in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Syed Zainul Abedin (1928–1993) and Saleha Mahmood Abedin.[4][9] Abedin is of Indian descent, and has a sister and a brother.
At the age of two, Abedin moved with her family to Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), where she was raised and lived until returning to the United States for college.[4][9] Abedin traveled frequently during her childhood and teenage years, and attended a British girls' school.[9]
Both of her parents were educators. Her father, born in New Delhi (India) on April 2, 1928,[10] was an Islamic and Middle Eastern scholar of Indian descent, who received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and then in 1978 founded the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, an organization devoted to the study of Muslim communities in non-Muslim societies around the world. In 1979, he founded the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs,[11] which his wife took over after his death; Huma was listed as an associate editor from 1996 to 2008. Her mother, also born in colonial India (now Pakistan after the 1947 British Partition), also received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently an associate professor of sociology and dean at Dar Al-Hekma College in Jeddah.[4][12]
At age 18, Abedin entered George Washington University,[4][9] where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree as a journalism major with a minor in political science.[13][14] As a teenager, she aspired to be a journalist like her role model Christiane Amanpour and wanted to work in the White House press office.[15]
Congressional inquiries
Outside employment while at State Department
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, raised questions about Abedin's work as a State Department employee, concerning the fact that she held four jobs[28] from June 2012 to February 2013.[18][29][30][31] These included serving as a part-time aide to Clinton at the State Department, while also working as a consultant to private clients for the consulting firm Teneo Holdings,[29][30] a consulting firm run by Douglas Band, a longtime aide to former president Bill Clinton.[32] At the time, she was also being paid a salary for work at the Clinton Foundation, and working as Hillary Clinton's personal assistant.[28] The State Department and Abedin both responded, with the State Department indicating that it uses special government employees routinely "to provide services and expertise that executive agencies require", and Abedin stating that she did not provide any government information or inside information gained from her State Department job to her private employers. Grassley said he found the letters unresponsive.[31] In July 2015, Grassley released information indicating that the State Department's inspector general had found that Abedin was overpaid by almost $10,000 for unused leave time when she left the government, resulting from violations of the rules governing vacation and sick leave during her tenure on the payroll as a Federal employee in the department.[32][33] Abedin's attorneys said that she had learned in May that the Department's inspector general had found that she improperly collected $9,857 for periods when she was on vacation or leave, responded with a 12-page letter contesting the findings, and formally requested an administrative review of the investigation's conclusions.[32] Her lawyer, Miguel Rodriguez, told The New York Times that the inspector general's report showed that Abedin worked during her maternity leave and had thus earned that pay.[34]
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