MEET OUR FOUNDERS

Tazeen Ahmad is the Chief Financial Officer at Capitol Hill Consulting Group.  In this role, she manages the firm’s financial strategy, financial planning and analysis, financial reports, company audits, compliance, and bank relationships.  She is also responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable federal, state, and local campaign finance and election laws for the firm.

Tazeen has been a lifelong advocate of issues of importance to women and over the years has worked in leadership positions with many nonprofit organizations that serve women and children. In April 2019, she and her daughter, Marium, co-founded Up 2 Us Foundation, a Maryland nonprofit addressing food insecurity in Maryland and Washington, DC.  She currently serves as the board chair.  Tazeen also serves on the Board of Directors at Interfaith Works, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides emergency shelter, supportive housing, essential needs, and employment programs to over 35,000 residents of Montgomery County, MD, every year.

In August 2020, Tazeen was named as one of the Maryland Commission for Women's 100 Maryland Sheroes for her work in distributing food to Covid impacted families. During  women’s history month, in 2021, she was a Women Making History honoree in Montgomery County.

Previously Tazeen served as a Commissioner on the Montgomery County Commission for Women from 2018 to 2021. While at the CFW, she co-chaired the 2020 Women’s Legislative Briefing and was on the Policy and Legislation Committee.  Before her time on the Commission, she was on Montgomery County’s Victims Services Advisory Board and served as the board chair during her term there.  Her time on VSAB gave her a deeper understanding not only of issues faced by victims of crime and their families but also policies that impact the criminal justice system and our community at-large with a specific focus on domestic violence and sexual assault.

Marium Ahmad co-founded  Up 2 Us Foundation. She has a passion for serving her community, especially marginalized groups. By seeking out the voices of underserved communities, collaboration, and education, Marium helped inspire and develop Up 2 Us programs that are designed to improve the quality of life for people in need. She is an advocate for social justice and believes it is everyone’s responsibility to serve and support each other in order to make a positive change in our society. 

In 2021 Marium was named one of the Women Making History honorees for Women’s History Month in Montgomery County, Maryland. Marium earned her bachelors in Sociology from the University of Maryland and her masters degree in Education from George Mason University in 2018. In her free time she enjoys learning about history and making music.