Tahara Akmal is a board-certified chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains and serves as Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. Chaplain Akmal is a Visiting Faculty member in the chaplaincy program at Bayan Islamic Seminary at Chicago Theological Seminary. She earned a BA degree in psychology with a minor in religion from Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, California, and a MA degree in Islamic studies and pastoral counseling from Claremont School of Theology, also in California. Chaplain Akmal is a Ph.D. student at Alvernia University, in Reading, Pennsylvania researching Leadership and Chaplaincy.

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