Resume
Work Experience
2022 - Present
Editor & Producer
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
At The Met, I edit interpretive editorial content related to the museum, its collection, and exhibitions for our digital publications, Perspectives and the Timeline of Art History. That has involved commissioning writing from curators, conservators, artists, and community members, and working with them through developmental, line, copy and structural editing. I also work on a cross-functional Content Lab, bringing together content producers and software developers to ideate and build new experimental forms of storytelling.
2023
Book Editor
Freelance
I edited Columbia History Professor Manan Ahmed’s upcoming book, Disrupted City, on history and memory in Lahore, Pakistan's cultural and intellectual capital, providing developmental, line, and copy, editing. The book will be published by The New Press in July 2024.
2020 - Present
Senior Editor
South Asian Avant Garde Anthology
SAAG is an anthology, a magazine, and a collective, serving as a space to publish avant-garde literature, reportage, art, and other creative media from across South Asia and its diverse diasporas. As a Senior Editor, I work primarily on multimedia, essays, and reportage, collaborating with contributors to edit, hewn and direct their projects. I've also conducted rigorous interviews with eminent authors, academics, and artists.
2018 - 2022
Producer and Researcher
The New Yorker
At The New Yorker, I produced interactive stories and multimedia content, project managing this work from inception through publication. That involved generating story ideas; communicating with and getting buy-in from stakeholders; writing project proposals; conducting background research, interviews and reporting; designing and storyboarding; editing audio and video; clearing legal rights and fact-checking; coding interactive features; creating project-timelines and deadlines; and managing publication.
During that time, I produced award-winning immersive features, designed new interactive tools that could enhance storytelling, managed our Election 2020 results visualizations, and launched and produced Books for the Midnight Hour, an IGTV video series.
I also served as Unit Chair of The New Yorker Union, helping to organize 150 workers, and working with The News Guild of New York, New Yorker management, and Condé Nast lawyers to negotiate and sign The New Yorker's first collective bargaining agreement.
Education
2013 - 2017
Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism | Bachelors of Science
Summa Cum Laude
Major: Journalism, International Studies
Minor: Computer Science
Concentration: History
Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism Honors Society
Skills
& Expertise
Languages:
Urdu - fluent; Spanish - Intermediate;
Arabic - Beginner; French - Beginner
Software:
Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro)
Figma, Airtable, Asana, Jira, Trello
Programming:
HTML, CSS, Javascript, GeoJSON, C++
Other:
Agile Project Management, Writing, Reporting, Editing, Visual Editing, Social Media
Awards
Projects I worked on were recognized with:
Peabody Awards:
Immersive and Interactive 2022 Winner
Online Journalism Awards:
The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award 2022 Winner
Excellence in Immersive Storytelling 2021 Winner
Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling 2021 Winner
Digital Video Storytelling 2021 Winner
Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling 2019 Finalist
ASME Ellie Awards:
Feature Photography 2021 Finalist
Social Media 2021 Finalist
Feature Writing 2021 Finalist
Digital Innovation 2019 Finalist
SPJ Mark of Excellence Region 5 Awards:
Best Student Magazine 2017 Finalist
Best Student Magazine 2016 Winner
Non-Fiction Magazine Article 2016 Winner
Best Student Magazine 2015 Finalist
General Column Writing 2015 Finalist