Born and raised in Iran as a religious minority, Kiana was awarded a scholarship from the Japanese government to study electrical engineering in Japan, where she faced a new challenge of being the only girl and only foreigner in her class. This is precisely when she knew she wanted to dedicate her life to empowering minorities, especially women in male dominated industries, such as finance and technology. During her 7 years in Japan, she became recognized as an outspoken "foreign" woman, and became a lecturer on political/ social issues in universities around Japan. She was later assigned a seat on a Japanese National TV (NHK) talk show as a commentator on international and domestic issues, on which she appeared regularly for two years. These activities gained her widespread recognition and as a result she won a number of key awards (see below). After graduating from Tokyo University of Electro Communications with honors, Kiana worked as an analyst at a consulting company, taking over clients such as Coca-Cola and Toyota in Japan. However, having found her true passion in finance, she rapidly decided to move to New York to pursue her dream, and started working at the largest currency broker in the US in 2010. She soon discovered that there was a significant lack of education in the field of investing as well as a significant lack of women in the industry, which was something she was eager to change.

So Kiana decided to leave her job and start an investing education company for women in May 2012. As part of this transition, Kiana started writing an educational blog, which was discovered by McGraw-Hill Business, who in turn offered her a book publishing deal in August 2012. Her first book, Invest Diva's Guide to Making Money in Forex was published in June 2013, and has been featured on CNN, TIME magazine, Forbes, ABC News, Market Watch, FX Street, Nasdaq, and the NYSE. Fluent in Japanese, English and Farsi, Kiana has collaborated with international and domestic companies such as NASDAQ (NY), Forbes magazine, Forex TV (NY), SHIFT (NY), Orbex (Cyprus), Platinum Investments (UK), Scuttify (Australia), Trading Central (Singapore), Capital Index (UK), AutoChartist (South Africa), BFSForex (China), Tokyo-MX TV, Aonorshe School (Japan) and FX-ON (Japan) on consulting, education and various media projects. Kiana is also an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Baruch College, teaching an advanced wealth management course.