ZAINAB AHMED

For this fellowship, I plan to take my thesis ahead on the Art Under Kashmiri Conflict and produce a full fledged 5-episode podcast.

• Wrote news articles about the Muslim women dissenting against the Anti-Muslim law implemented by Indian government in 2019 and about the increasing crime and discrimination of Dalits in India.
• Also, wrote a review of Arundhati Roy’s book Azaadi and a news cum opinion piece about how dissenting has become a crime in India in the Colonization edition.
• The article about dissenting Muslim women ranked third in the Best News Page/Spread category at the College Media Convention.

• Wrote various articles ranging from Rising Communalism in India to the struggles of menstruating Muslim women during Ramadan.
• Also reviewed several movies and did a ground reportage of the rape and murder of a tribal kid in the Jammu region of Jammu & Kashmir.
• The Menstruating Muslim women fared as the most read story of the year 2016 of the website.

• Working as an Advanced Technical Assistance.
• Responsibilities include enhancing software that SAIC buys for various classes and also managing a record of all the software bought by the SAIC in the Salesforce Software Database.

• Worked with Film Critic Fred Camper and helped him in his class Film History class for SAIC undergraduate students as he introduced them to the world of cinema through movies from different parts of the world and time.
• Responsibilities included managing the class, grading the students and giving a regular report & feedback to Professor Camper about the students.

• Worked with Chicago based Film Critic Jonathan Rosenbaum and helped him in his class Film History class for SAIC undergraduate students as he introduced them to the famous French filmmaker Agnes Varda.
• Responsibilities included managing the class online, having one on one interactions with students, grading the students and giving a regular report & feedback to Professor Rosenbaum about the students.

• Worked with the reporters & various News Agencies to publish the Breaking stories timely, Copy and Line Edited the stories, looked over the News Section & managed the website.
• Also wrote opinion political and entertainment pieces.

• Worked with Art Historian and Educator Daniel Merkel and helped him in his class Film History class for SAIC undergraduate students.
• Responsibilities included managing the class both in-person and online, having one on one interactions with students regularly, grading the students and giving a regular report & feedback to Professor Merkel about the students.

• Worked as a Reporter, Copy Writer, Copy Editor, Line Editor, News writer on issues like gender inequality, international issues, campus & political reporting in and around Delhi), Interviewed prominent personalities, made documentaries around Human Interest issues, wrote video scripts and did story boarding, did Video Anchoring, Produced & Edited Videos.
• Handled the organization’s social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube and also promoted the website’s contents.
• Also worked with the interns in bringing out city stories for different sections.
• Won Editor’s choice award for doing a video story on the disappearance of Najeeb from JNU- one of the most renowned universities of India.

• Jashn-e-Rekhta is a yearly festival that celebrates the spirit of the language Urdu by inviting and displaying the work of various artists like singers, poets, activists, painters.
• I’ve voluntarily worked for two seasons of the festivals and my job duties included arranging the date with the artists and conveyance for their visit, scheduling the programs, maintaining the audience flow, and promoting the event on various Social Media accounts and also by physically distributing the posters and pamphlets under the guidance of senior Program coordinator.

• Facilitated in Newspaper page layout and Web Designing, feature reporting, copy editing, news writing.

• Learned about Page Layout and Designing, feature reporting, and copy editing. Worked on the Kolkata and Uttar Pradesh political team with their reporters in the Print Department.