Mariam Veiszadeh is an in-house lawyer, a community rights advocate, pro-Islam campaigner, keynote speaker, opinion writer and Twitter personality. She is ranked in the top 0.5% users on social media. She is an official Ambassador for Welcome to Australia, a migrants' support group and original founder and President of the Islamophobia Register Australia, a reporting platform which allows incidents of islamophobia to be reported, recorded and analysed. Veiszadeh and her family fled from Kabul, in Afghanistan in 1988, when she was just four years old. They ended up in Australia three years later via India, the Czech Republic and Germany and were granted asylum in 1991 under the Refugee and Special Humanitarian Program.