Aysha Khan

As senior editor at the nonprofit news site Next City, She publish solutions-oriented news stories about how people are building more equitable, accessible and sustainable cities, covering everything from urban farming to tenant organizing. But she's trained as a religion reporter: My in-depth coverage of American Muslim communities has been published by Religion News Service, a nonprofit wire where she spent several years as a staff journalist, as well as in the Washington Post, Associated Press, Boston Globe and other national outlets.

She hold degrees in journalism from the University of Maryland and in Islamic studies from Harvard Divinity School. She's been a fellow with the International Center for Journalists, GroundTruth Project, Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, Muslim Women & the Media Training Institute, and Journalism & Women Symposium.