Served as member of National Spiritual Assembly of the United States, and Secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly of Samoa. Pioneered nine years in Pacific islands, Africa and the carribean. Served as Aux. Bd. member under the Hands of the Cause in the Uniterd States and under the Counselors in the NW Pacific.
Retired after working 53 years, 35 years of it in the Health Care field in this country and overseas.
Veteran, 24th Infantry Div. Medical Battalion, Korea

Baha'i Service:

Institution of the Counsellors - Appointed Auxiliary Board member in 1976 and appointed Counsellor in 1993.

(Also served about 10 years on Board of Trustee for Huququ'llah in the United States)

Professionally:

Private practice - Psychotherapist/Consultant about 30 years
Adjunct Professor about 16 years (a state university college of management)

Sina McCants Mossayeb was homegrown in Los Angeles, and finds his roots in the Los Angeles Baha'i Youth Workshop where he developed a deep love for Babi-Baha'i History and Sufi literature from his teacher (Oscar DeGruy). Following his passion he received his bachelors in history from UCLA where he focused on Middle Eastern history, Islam, and the Babi movement; he went on to obtain a masters degree in Near Eastern Studies, completing research on the life and works of the fame Babi theologian, activist, and poet Tahirih (and will be publishing a book about the subject in the near future). Sina switched gears from history to education, and is now engage in a doctoral program in Comparative and International Education at Columbia University, on counter-educational-movements that emerge under the pressure of oppressive regimes. Sina has worked closely with youth in the United States and abroad, co-founding various programs such as One World, New Horizon, and Mandala Training Program among others. Currently, he is in the process of establishing a Baha'i inspired non-profit organization entitled inPower--a youth program centered out of Harlem; he is also a consultant for Columbia University's Center for International Education Policy and Research. He lives in New York with his beloved wife Martha.