The daughter of journalists Najam Sethi and Jugnu Mohsin, she attended Lahore Grammar School and Cheltenham Ladies' College then graduated from Wellesley College in 2010; she spent her junior year abroad at Oxford University.[1] At Wellesley, she studied English and South Asian studies, and, at her 2010 graduation, was the student commencement speaker.[1] Sethi was a Robert L. Bartley fellow and an assistant book editor at The Wall Street Journal and also contributed political commentary for the newspaper, particularly on the subject of Pakistan.[2][3] Her career at the Journal lasted about two and a half years.