Fatemeh Haghighatjoo is a scholar and reformist politician who represented capital, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr in the Parliament from 2000 to 2004. She left in 2005 and currently resides in the United States, where she serves as the CEO and co-founder of the 501(c) organization Nonviolent Initiative for Democracy (NID).
Haghighatjoo was born in 1968 in southern capital and comes from a traditionalist middle class family. She lost her father in an accident when she was 6, and was brought up by her mother as a practising Muslim. She attended University of Tehran and Tarbiat Modarres University, gaining a degree in psychology and holding a Ph.D. in family counseling. She was a student activist with the Office for Strengthening Unity.
