Since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in summer 2021, Afghan women journalists have been forced into exile, unable to move forward in their careers. Reclaiming Futures is a pilot project supporting women journalists and media employees in exile as they establish themselves in the U.S. and reclaim their professional identities., the program will support a small cohort of Afghan women reporters and media employees.
We welcome writers, filmmakers, photographers, data journalists, translators and fixers who have worked in the media industry in Afghanistan. To be eligible to apply, the applicants must be in the U.S., and be able to travel within the U.S. The language of communication for this project is English.Zahra Nader is an Afghan journalist who covers women’s stories in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. She started her career in 2011 in Kabul, writing and editing for Afghan local media outlets.
She is a contributing reporter for the Fuller Project, an award-winning global non-profit newsroom covering women’s stories, and a former editor at Rukhshana Media, a women-led newsroom covering women in Afghanistan. She is currently based in Toronto, Canada, pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Gender, Feminist & Women’s Studies at York University. Her Ph.D. research focuses on the political history of Afghan women.is a British-American journalist based in London. She is currently a contributor to TIME Magazine. Previously, she reported from across Russia and the former Soviet space for almost a decade, most recently as Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post.
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