Beenish Ahmed hired as Michigan Radio reporter

RC Creative Writing alumna Beenish Ahmed (2009) has been hired by Michigan Radio (WUOM) as a Detroit-based reporter. She begins work on January 11. Since 2016, Beenish  has been a reporter for WNYC Public Radio in New York and a freelance journalist. She spent two years in Islamabad, Pakistan, working with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
After U-M, Beenish earned a master’s degree from the University of Cambridge. She was also a Spencer Fellow at the Columbia School of Journalism in New York, and an NPR Kroc Fellow.
Beenish was featured featured in an article in the November/December 2017 issue of Poets & Writers magazine, about her venture, The Alignist, a now-quarterly book subscription service that provides readers a different way to understand sociopolitical issues and to engage with other cultures. “She is not exactly filling a niche . . . She’s created a niche,” the article reports.
Beenish was also featured in a 2019 article in “Alumna Spotlight” on the RC website. “Now an accomplished international journalist and entrepreneur,” the article begins, “Beenish leveraged her time in the RC to learn and love the craft of writing.”
For more information on Beenish, and for links to her writings, visit her website.

 

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