Aida is a Bosnian-American author, poet, songwriter, Internet entrepreneur, and motivational speaker. 

She is an extremely prolific and versatile author, having written over 100 books (in a span of 5 years) which she will publish soon. Aida often writes about social justice, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ambition, courage, uniqueness, discrimination. bullying, violence, war, power, activism, beauty, rebellion, creativity, love, and critical thinking. She writes about her past experiences of being a refugee and immigrant.

Aida is the Founder and CEO of Searchkey, a company that helps people find resources and information that are relevant to their academic goals. She has built an educational platform so that more students from disadvantaged backgrounds can find scholarships, reach their potential, and achieve their dreams. Aida was fortunate enough to have been awarded $150,000 in scholarships and merit-based grants in addition to full-ride scholarship offers to several top universities, totaling over a million dollars. She is a Scholarship Expert, Scholarship Advisor, and Edtech Consultant and Specialist.

She is the Founding Member of IdeaGist Blockchain Incubator which is a collaboration platform for people with ideas and those who are interested in new ideas. It is the world’s largest virtual incubation platform, connecting 29,000+ users from 300+ communities from all over the world. It hosts 1,100+ mentors, helping different communities with their early-stage ideas. She has worked as a Researcher/Contributor for Seeking Alpha, Corporate Development and Investment Research Analyst for I Know First: Daily Market Forecast, and as an Advisor for companies who want to develop their IEOs (Initial Exchange Offerings) and ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings).

In addition to scholarships and grants, she has also received a considerable amount of funding (approximately $100,000) in the form of awards, which have been useful in helping her facilitate her creative projects. She earned her B.A. at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor in Women’s Studies. Aida studied Entrepreneurship, Community Action and Social Change, and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian. She also studied English Literature abroad at the University of Oxford. She has taken online courses from Harvard, Dartmouth, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, Y Combinator’s Startup School, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Cornell, Singularity University, Hyper Island, GrowthX, Founder Institute, and altMBA amongst others.