I'm an award-winning journalist, former foreign correspondent, and creative nonfiction writer with more than 15 years of experience telling stories that drive change.
I'm the daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants and the daughter of a child bride. That inheritance shapes not only how I move through the world but why I write. I've spent my career on the stories of women, girls, and immigrant communities that get flattened or skipped entirely — reported with the nuance and urgency they should have been given in the first place.
I've reported for The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and Prism Reports on migration, displacement, gender, and diaspora life. The work has taken me from Rohingya refugee camps to South Asian factory floors to immigrant neighborhoods in New York City. I've investigated the mental health toll of immigration enforcement on children in mixed-status families, and how structural violence and cultural inheritance shape ordinary days at the margins. My reporting on the Rohingya crisis was cited by the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
I'm the founder of Port of Entry, a multimedia publication covering immigration and diaspora life and politics across South Asian and Muslim America with an intergenerational and intersectional lens.
My reporting has been supported by fellowships from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, the Solutions Journalism Network, the International Women's Media Foundation, and the South Asian Journalists Association. I'm a Goldhouse Journalism Futures Fellow.
Alongside journalism, I lead brand and communications strategy for mission-driven organizations. As Fractional Communications Director at the South Asian Council for Social Services, I led the creative and strategic vision for their 25th Anniversary Gala, an effort that measurably raised the organization's visibility and donor engagement. I've also led storytelling initiatives at the Center for Reproductive Rights, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations World Food Programme.
Whether I'm writing a feature or building a campaign, I work from the same belief: storytelling is a tool for liberation, and the people closest to the margins belong at the center.
I'm based in New York City, where I'm at work on a memoir and pursuing my MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Hunter College.
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