Shahla is the founder and director of Yusra Community Center and Inshira Collective. Yusra is a volunteer-run space providing direct support with displaced communities living in Istanbul, while Inshira is a feminist safe(r) space for those identifying as women from displaced communities. Shahla actively dedicates herself to solidarity work in the Southwest Asia and North African region and her primary focus revolves around displacement, human rights, child protection, and emergency education.

Shahla is also a former documentary filmmaker and journalist. She values that the Fund offers women and gender non-binary activists a space to collaboratively foster justice for displaced communities.