Robia Rashid

Robia Sara Rashid (born July 30, 1977) is an American television writer-producer and showrunner. She is widely known as the creator of Netflix original series Atypical. Rashid was also the co-story editor, co-producer and supervising producer of the CBS sitcom series How I Met Your Mother. Early life and education Rashid said that she grew up in a biracial family in northern Vermont. She is half-Pakistani, half-European. Her father is from Pakistan and her mother's family's origins are from England and Ireland. She said her family was very influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, and were, as she describes them, hippies. Rashid has an undergraduate degree in education. In 2005, Rashid graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts with an master's of fine arts degree in the dramatic writing program. Career Rashid got her start working in the non-profit sector at the Posse Foundation in a college scholarship and mentorship program for inner city kids in Boston.