A 2009 graduate of the Faculty of Arts, English Department. Shahenda first joined the PSC in 2007 as a volunteer, where she assisted animators in conducting workshops and organizing events. Then she joined the PSC editorial team in 2008 as an outsource translator; she became a full-time editor and translator by end–2010. She is one of the rotational managing editors of the first popular science magazine in Egypt, SCIplanet. As a person with basic scientific background, she understands and believes in the importance of relaying scientific information to the reader in the simplest, most interesting manner. Working in a great cultural hub that is the Library of Alexandria, and within her editorial role in the cultural outreach sector, she enjoys being constantly introduced to interesting fields of science, heritage, and art.