Jacqueline Saper is a noted Iranian-American CPA, author, analyst, public speaker, columnist, lecturer, and translator. Ms. Saper’s opinion columns and essays regularly appear in national and international publications. Her book, “From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran” is published by Potomac Books of The University of Nebraska Press. (October 2019) and has received rave reviews and extensive praise.

The book retells her account as a witness to the civil unrest of the 1979 Iranian revolution and the formidable years of the Islamic Republic during its most volatile times as well as the Iran-Iraq War. Her opinion columns and essays regularly appear in national and international publications. Ms. Saper is also an analyst on current U.S.– Iran affairs and appears on radio and television shows.

She is the 2018 recipient of Oakton College Distinguished Alumni Award, and a Fellow member at MESA, Middle East Studies Association. In light of her duel fluency in Farsi and English, she serves as a volunteer for the National Immigrant Justice Center, working with supervising attorneys as a translator/interpreter for immigrants, refugees. She holds a Science degree in Business from Northeastern Illinois University (Summa Cum Laude) and received the designation of CPA from the Board of Examiners of the University of Illinois.