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 currently the Executive Producer and Co-Host of the twice-weekly Vox Media podcast, “On with Kara Swisher.”

Nayeema was previously a Senior Editor at The New York Times where she spent two years running “Sway,” an Opinion podcast that frequently featured newsmaking interviews with leaders in media, politics and technology and which extensively covered disinformation from Sandy Hook to January 6th and beyond. Prior to this, she was a Senior Producer in the Opinion Section of the Times, where she developed Video Op-Eds on topics like immigration and internet privacy. She has also penned essays on modern culture for The New York Times and for The Cut.

Nayeema came into journalism with a background in documentary filmmaking and international development consulting.  She started her career at the Monitor Group, where she spent five years advising foreign governments in Libya, Vietnam, Jordan and Sub-Saharan Africa on economic reform and market-based solutions to poverty. Her film and TV credits include writing and producing the documentary feature “Sublime,” which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, as well as Executive Producing the CBS All Access documentary series, “That Animal Rescue Series,” an episode of which was selected for the 2020 Telluride Film Festival.

Nayeema holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a BSFS from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and on the Young Patrons Leadership Committee of PEN America.