title: Mitra Jashni
text: # Mitra Jashni
  
  Mitra Jashni (Persian: میترا جشنی; born 16 December 1976) is an Iranian visual artist and political activist, of Kurdish ethnicity. She works in the mediums of painting, drawing, and sculpture; as well as works as an art teacher, poet, and singer of Iranian contemporary music. She is one of the founders and executive director of Farashgard, an Iranian political party and activist group based in Washington, D.C..
  
  ## Biography
  
  Jashni was born in Iran on 16 December 1976 in Mashhad, Pahlavi Iran. In 2008, she received a MA degree in painting from Tehran's Soore University.
  
  As of 2014, she had worked as an artist for more than ten years in Iran, Canada, South America, and Europe.
  
  