Appearances/Panels/Teaching

Featuring myself, the CEO of Save The Children, and the executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, we speak about one year of Israel's assault on Gaza and the dire humanitarian conditions journalists and civilians have and continue to face.

In this conversation, Type Investigations spoke with me about what inspired me to conduct this investigation, my public records request litigation with ICE, and the issues victims of ICE shootings face when trying to get accountability from the agency

A New Generation of Storytellers: A judge for the Livingston Awards, which recognize impactful journalism by reporters under the age of 35, Audie Cornish interviewed me alongside my co-winner, Allison Behringer, about our work that won us the national coverage category. 

Interviewed by ICIJ, I spoke to the impossible conditions that journalists must bear when reporting in Gaza in addition to how the inequity in business structures of newsrooms in the U.S. contribute to their risk in the field. 

I joined KALW's Your Call show to speak to my work with Afnan Abu Yahia in The Nation where we describe in deep detail what the obstacles to reporting - and staying alive - journalists in Gaza face.  

In a piece tackling how newsrooms have been tackling covering Israel's war on Gaza - as well as its failures - I spoke with Columbia Journalism Review about how Arab journalists have borne the brunt of the moment and what it revealed about ongoing inequities in newsrooms. 

On this edition of Your Call, I joined the host, Rose Aguilar, to discuss a new Intercept piece about how Palestinians from Gaza who left home just months ago are experiencing the loss and grief of war from afar. Mohamed Dawas, 24, one of the people featured in the story, also joined. 

At a time of alarmingly escalated crisis, this year's event will bring together journalists, media professionals, scholars and diplomats to examine two very pertinent themes: "Freedom of the Press and Safety of Journalists in a Time of War" and "Behind the Headlines of Gaza: Media Challenges and Perspectives." I spoke to the biases and failures in U.S. media to adequately cover Israel's now-accused genocide in Gaza. 

What role does Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) reporting play on a conflict where we have no eyes on the ground? I spoke to students and the head of the Investigative Reporting program about how to use social media to identify clear violations of human rights law and the importance of questioning government narratives in conflict. 

The annual gala made its first in-person comeback since 2019. I emceed the foundation's biggest event of the year. 

Presented by Columbia Journalism School's Women in Media & The Office of DEI

The Freelance Conference, hosted by the Institute for Independent Journalists, was a two-day virtual event catering to veteren and new freelancers in media. I spoke about how to fund stories with fellowships and grants.

This virtual symposium features alumnae and professionals from a variety of fields, offering students, faculty, and guests the opportunity to speak with those in their area of interest. I was invited to be the keynote speaker for the ninth iteration of the annual event. 

Alongside other alumni of the scholarship in the civil society fields of law, public policy, and media, I was invited to be a keynote speaker at ISF's annual banquet. 

Working alongside Professor Joanne Faryon, I co-taught the journailsm fundamentals class that all students in the M.S. program must pass. I designed and created The Bronx Bulletin, a class website focused on local reporting across the Bronx. Our studens published over 60 breaking news, feature, and enterprise articles, as well as a special project that utilized AI to develop an interactive, explanatory map, all of which garnered thousands of views.

Working alongside Professor Azmat Khan, I offered teaching assistance in the Journalism School’s signature Conflict Reporting course. This included reviewing student work,  offering feedback, as well as developing and leading a full 3-hour class tackling reporting on diaspora communities and global migration.

One of several instructors, I developed and lead a seminar, "How to become an expert on tracking extremists when you've never covered the beat," for an extremism self-guided online workshop developed by the Election SOS and Hearken.