Fatema is a professional staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee where she focuses on South and Central Asia. During her tenure as a Presidential Management Fellow, Fatema served as the Regional Central Asia and Tajikistan Desk Officer at the U.S. Department of State, the Economics/Commerical Officer at U.S. Embassy Kabul in Afghanistan, and as a Congressional Fellow in Foreign Policy for Senator Robert Casey, Jr. Fatema was also a National Finalist for the White House Fellows. She received her Master in Public Affairs from Princeton's University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs where she was awarded the Donald E. Stokes Award for Academic Achievement & Public Service Leadership and her Bachelor of Arts in Government from Cornell University. She studied abroad at the American University in Cairo and interned for the Arab Association for Human Rights in Nazareth, Israel. Fatema was born in Malaysia and raised in East Brunswick, NJ.