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 & 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.

She serves as the President & CEO of Kermani Media, with over a decade of experience in the entertainment industry. Neda is an alumna of the Disney Entertainment Television Writing Program, the Women in Film Writer Fellowship, and the Mentorship Matters BIPOC Writers Initiative. Recent writing credits include Episode 205 of Netflix series The Recruit, and her first feature-film as a writer-producer, Influence, optioned by West 36 Productions. She recently joined the writers room of CBS series Tracker as a Staff Writer, starred in the feature film Bird of Paradise from Equilibria Pictures.

As an advocate for entertainment industry workers, she has served as the Director of Publicity + Partnership for the Women of Cinematic Arts, the official alumnae organization of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Her advocacy work has been recognized by publications including 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.