Mona Khademi will introduce the life of Laura Clifford Dreyfus-Barney and talk about the significance of her life and achievements. She will also discuss the details of her years of research, her challenges, and her new findings for the first time. Her extensive research, along with her deep interest in the life of Laura Barney provides a fascinating glimpse of the life of this remarkable woman. Her findings uncover the journey of Laura Barney, who embraced the Baha’i teachings and dedicated her life to applying these principles to her social and community work. Laura Barney’s major accomplishment was compiling a book titled ‘Some Answered Questions’, questions posed to Abdu’l-Baha, the son of the prophet founder of the Baha’i Faith, and His replies to her questions.
Since the year 2000, Mona Khademi has researched about the life of Laura Barney and has presented papers about her findings at various conferences as well as at Stanford University, Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Associates, the Embassy of Latvia in Washington DC, Washington Arts Club, American University, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and several public libraries. She has published several papers based on years of research and the biography that she has written titled ‘The Life of Laura Barney’, which was published by George Ronald Publisher in 2022.
Mona Khademi works as an arts management consultant in Washington DC.