Nayeema Raza

Nayeema Raza is a journalist and filmmaker whose work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, and the Tribeca Film Festival. She is a contributing editor to Semafor and co-hosts the podcast “Mixed Signals” which tackles the truth about modern media from people inside the machine. Nayeema was previously the on-air Executive Producer of the Vox Media podcast, “On with Kara Swisher.” Prior to that, she was a Senior Editor at The New York Times where she launched and ran the podcast “Sway,” was a video journalist in the Opinion section covering topics from immigration to internet privacy, and penned essays on modern culture. Nayeema came to journalism with a background in documentary filmmaking and international development, spending her early career advising foreign governments in places like Libya, Vietnam and South Africa on major policy reform. She is on the Board of Advisors of Open to Debate and on the Young Patrons Leadership Committee of PEN America. She is also a member of the Writers Guild of America, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a 2024 Henry Crown Fellow within the Aspen Institute.