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Born in 1976 to Syed Zainul Abedin (1928–93) and Saleha Mahmood Abedin in Michigan, at the age of two her family moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia where Huma lived until returning to the US for college at the age of 18. Within 2 years, she was working at the White House as an intern for then first-lady Hillary Clinton.

As Wikipedia reports about her family, both of her parents were educators. Her father, born in New Delhi (India) on April 2, 1928, 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, which his wife took over after his death; his daughter Huma was listed as an associate editor from 1996–2008.

Known as a trusted adviser to Hillary, particularly on the Middle East, prior to the Democratic primaries in 2007 she was labeled as ‘Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon’ after having taking over the position as Hillary’s top aide and personal advisor prior to her 2000 NY Senate run, later to be appointed ‘deputy chief of staff’ to Hillary at the US State Department in 2009.

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