 Reza’s burgeoning interest in low income housing and community development led to her enrolling in 1987 in the SMArchS Program at the Massachusetts Institute to Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA.In 1988, whilst at MIT, she was awarded a travel grant by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT to document informal housing in Bosnia, then a part of Yugoslavia.Reza is married to Ashraf Hameedi, a banker.