Forty years in the past, Shama Haider didn’t anticipate to have the job she does now.
An immigrant of Pakistan, Haider remembers how hers was one of many few non-white households on the town as she raised her youngsters in Tenafly within the early Nineteen Eighties. She remembers becoming a member of the native parent-teachers affiliation to ensure her kids “didn’t really feel like outsiders.”