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About me.

I love telling stories about the human emotions and inner lives behind the news. 

Whether I’m reporting on an infamous bank robbery, a landmark Supreme Court case, a scientific revolution, or a fatal flaw in policing systems across the nation, I want to know: how did the real people at the center of these stories feel? And what can their experiences tell us about the larger social, political and scientific worlds they live in?

In my role a reporter and producer at Radiolab,  I do a little bit of everything: interviewing, editing, sound designing, and even guest hosting.

Some of my favorite projects include How Stockholm Stuck, a Gracie Award-winning episode that interrogates the roots of “Stockholm syndrome” and its impact on survivors of abuse, and The Other Latif, a duPont-Columbia Award-winning series about a man held at Guantanamo.

Before Radiolab, I reported and produced episodes for More Perfect (where I fell in love with legal reporting), On the Media (where I learned to thrive on tight deadlines), and The Brian Lehrer Show (where I felt the true thrill of being live on air). 

I’m fluent in four languages (English, Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali) — and slowly picking up two more (Spanish and Arabic). I studied cultural anthropology at Princeton University, which forever shaped how I think about culture and power. I bring my Pakistani-American-Muslim-ness to the table in all the work I do.

When I’m not working, I love learning classical Hindustani music, indulging my interior design fantasies, making Google Maps lists as a love language, and being a power user of ToDoist.