Dr. Mahmoudi was the chief psychologist at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center Department of Psychiatry. She is the founder and director of Transcultural Communications Center. Homa specializes in the areas of cross-cultural management and development of strategies for better communication; and negotiation and marketing with companies involved in international business and global planning.

Homa is the director of Ravanbeh Psychological Institute. Since the 1992 riots, she has been one of the leaders in the development of community programs for implementing better understanding between gang members and various racial groups in Los Angeles.

Homa lectures internationally and has conducted research on women managers in Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, China, and Indonesia. She served as a speaker and delegate in women’s conferences held in Moscow, Beijing, Uruguay, Helsinki, Berlin, and the United States. In March 1997, Homa was a delegate to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women-50th Anniversary Meeting, New York City.

Homa is a member of The American Psychological Association, Women for International Peace and Arbitration, and several other professional and civic organizations.

She is the author of a number of academic papers and books related to the areas of cross-cultural psychology, communication, business and management, and women and peace studies.

Homa is a licensed psychologist and was a professor and researcher at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and several other universities in the United States and abroad. She has a weekly television program on psychological issues of immigrant families and is a regular guest on one of the Los Angeles radio talk shows.

Dr. Mahmoudi received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Utah.