Rice University
Policy Studies, Asian Studies, International Affairs

Foreign Correspondent
Freelance |
-- Pitched and wrote more than 100 articles from Pakistan on terrorism, public health, Chinese companies, climate change, and violence against women. -- As part of a multi-year Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grant in Pakistan, investigated Chinese projects in Pakistan under Xi Jinping’s trillion-dollar Belt & Road Initiative. Published migration reporting in the 2018 anthology Uncertain Journeys: Labour Migration from South Asia. -- Also reported as a foreign correspondent from Myanmar, Jordan, the Philippines, Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Malaysia on topics like the Rohingya refugee crisis, LGBTQ rights in South Asia, and the 2015 Nepal earthquake.

Copy Editor, Fact-Checker
Rest of World |
Copy-edits and fact-checks features and news reports on global tech in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Web Editor
Adweek |
Edited 10-12 articles a day on media, business, tech, finance, and digital marketing for an audience of 6 million.

Social Media Producer (Contract)
Vox |
Scheduled and optimized evening and weekend social media content across Twitter and Facebook, reaching 2.6 million Facebook fans and 1 million Twitter followers.

Lead Author, Researcher
International Labor Organization |
Designed research report analyzing how Pakistani media outlets covered migration. Collated and analyzed hundreds of Urdu and English print, television, and digital news items and interviewed dozens of journalists in Pakistan and the Middle East about migration in Urdu and English.

Social Media Fellow, Fact-Checker
Mother Jones Magazine |
-- Reported enterprise stories on the Trump administration, domestic U.S. politics, and Guantanamo. -- Drafted, scheduled, managed, and optimized all posts for Mother Jones’ Twitter and Facebook account, reaching 1.5 million Facebook fans and nearly 862,000 Twitter followers. -- Fact-checked major print and web stories on U.S. politics, science, food, and psychology.

Breaking News Fellow/Reporter
TIME Magazine |
Wrote and published 3-5 breaking news articles per day on TIME.com, in addition to enterprise stories on topics like drone litigation inside Pakistan and the Rohingya refugee crisis during the 2015 Nepal earthquake.

Associate Editor
Wherever Magazine (Travel Magazine) |
Commissioned, edited, and fact-checked travel writing from a pool of freelancers around the world.

Web Developer
Kinder Institute for Urban Research |
Designed new website for one of Houston’s leading think tanks, including all multimedia elements. Managed the institute’s social media presence on Twitter and Facebook.

Web Editor
Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University |
Oversaw the overhaul of the website, introduced a new design, and edited Asia-related content pulled from scholars’ work across different academic disciplines. Created graphics in Adobe Photoshop and managed and expanded the center’s social media presence.