Full Name
NAYEEMA RAZA
Job Title
Master of Ceremonies
Company
Journalist and Co-Host, Mixed Signals, Semafor
Speaker Bio
Nayeema Raza is a journalist and filmmaker whose work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine and the Tribeca Film Festival.
Nayeema is currently the co-host of the podcast Mixed Signals from Semafor Media. Nayeema was previously the on-air Executive Producer of Vox Media's "On with Kara Swisher" and a Senior Editor at The New York Times where she ran the podcast “Sway,” produced Video Op-Eds on topics like immigration and internet privacy, and penned Opinion essays on modern culture. Nayeema came into journalism with a background in documentary filmmaking and international development. She started her career at the Monitor Group, where she spent five years advising governments in Libya, Vietnam, Jordan and Sub-Saharan Africa on economic reform and market-based solutions to poverty.
Nayeema holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a BSFS from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. She is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Writers Guild of America, on the Leadership Committee of PEN America Young Patrons and a 2024 Henry Crown Fellow within the Aspen Institute.
Nayeema is currently the co-host of the podcast Mixed Signals from Semafor Media. Nayeema was previously the on-air Executive Producer of Vox Media's "On with Kara Swisher" and a Senior Editor at The New York Times where she ran the podcast “Sway,” produced Video Op-Eds on topics like immigration and internet privacy, and penned Opinion essays on modern culture. Nayeema came into journalism with a background in documentary filmmaking and international development. She started her career at the Monitor Group, where she spent five years advising governments in Libya, Vietnam, Jordan and Sub-Saharan Africa on economic reform and market-based solutions to poverty.
Nayeema holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a BSFS from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. She is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Writers Guild of America, on the Leadership Committee of PEN America Young Patrons and a 2024 Henry Crown Fellow within the Aspen Institute.
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