Neda has rebellion in her blood. Raised by a single mother who came of age in Revolutionary Iran, she grew up on Persian epic poems and American television. She graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Writing for Screen & Television from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she founded the first annual Feminist Media Festival, won the College Television Award presented by the Television Academy, and was awarded a screenwriting scholarship by the Bijan Amin Student Support Fund.

Since graduating, she has worked in television writers rooms and on film and television sets. She is an alumna of the Mentorship Matters BIPOC Writers Initiative, a screenwriting fellowship that pairs emerging writers with showrunner mentors. Recent writing credits include Episode 205 of Netflix original series The Recruit, and her first feature-film as a writer producer, Influence, which has been optioned by West 36 Productions. In addition, she serves as the Director of Publicity + Partnership for the Women of Cinematic Arts, the official alumnae organization of the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

As an actress, she stars in the feature film Bird of Paradise from Equilibria Pictures. As an advocate for entertainment industry workers, she has been featured in The Hollywood Reporter, IndieWire, and The Guardian. Her screenplays span a variety of genres, from family drama and coming-of-age romance to political thriller and supernatural horror. She writes about rebellious women who fight the systems that silence them.