Mursal Ashrafi currently serves as the Member for Diversity and Inclusion on the Ismaili Council for Ontario.
Mursal attended the University of Waterloo where she studied Nanotechnology and Chemical Engineering (BASc, MASc); she has worked on the development of advanced nanomaterials for applications in optics, imaging, and filtration, including energy-efficient seawater desalination to produce freshwater.
She is currently a project engineer at an engineering consulting firm, serving the chemical and bulk materials industry.