About Theresa Nejad

Ali and Theresa Nejad have for over two decades been involved in the design, production and distribution of handmade rugs, an enterprise which has required a considerable amount of travel to the rug production centers of the world - including Afghanistan. Despite the full-time demands of the type of industry they are involved with, they have still managed to donate freely of their time and resources: In 2006 they donated $50,000 to the Oriental Rug Importers Association Charitable Fund - an organization committed to improving the health, welfare, and economic status of needy children and their families in major capet weaving districts around the world. In 2007 they were among a special envoy of business owners who traveled with U.S. Department of Commerce officials to Afghanistan as volunteers enlisted to help resurrect the country's centuries-old - and war-damaged - carpet industry.