Ananya Bhasin
Ananya Bhasin joined CPJ as the Emergencies Associate in April 2023. Prior to joining CPJ, Ananya worked with survivors of gender-based violence as a Senior Advocate at Sakhi for South Asian Women, where she provided culturally sensitive safety planning, crisis response, and economic empowerment services. She has previous experience in poverty law and food insecurity at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute and Project Bread. At the University of Massachusetts, Ananya studied political science, the Middle East, and creative writing. She speaks Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, and some Arabic.
Bypassing the ‘Taliban firewall’: How an exile newsroom reports on Afghan women
Faisal Karimi and Wahab Siddiqi, respectively founder and editor-in-chief of the Afghanistan Women’s News Agency, were among the first journalists to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban retook control of the country in August 2021. After escaping the country undetected with nearly two dozen newsroom colleagues and family members a week after the fall of Kabul,…