I’m a journalist fascinated by how people are working for justice, in ways large and small. Currently I work as the managing editor at the nonprofit news site Next City and as the deputy managing editor at nonprofit outlet Analyst News . My background is in religion journalism: My in-depth coverage of American Muslim communities has been published by Religion News Service , a nonprofit wire where I spent several years as a staff journalist, as well as in the Washington Post, Associated Press, Boston Globe a
I hold degrees in journalism from the University of Maryland and in Islamic studies from Harvard Divinity School. I've been a fellow with the Solutions Journalism Network, International Center for Journalists, GroundTruth Project, Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, Muslim Women & the Media Training Institute, and Journalism & Women Symposium.
I've filed stories from London to Las Vegas, covering a Uyghur woman's battle to release her father from Chinese detention, how Muslim app developers see data privacy as an act of faith , the Muslim women confronting spiritual abuse , and Pakistan's weaponization of its blasphemy laws against minority Muslims in the U.S.