Summary: <p>Samira Sadeque is a New York-based Bangladeshi journalist and poet focusing on migration, the refugee crisis, gender and mental health. She completed her M.S. in Journalism from Columbia Journalism School in 2017.</p> <p>Samira began her journalism career in Dhaka, Bangladesh, covering the 2013 factory collapse, the country's ethnic and religious minorities, and its LGBT community. Her work appears in Reuters, NPR, Al Jazeera, Quartz, The Lily, and the Dhaka Tribune among other publications. Her story was nominated for a 2018 South Asian Journalists Association award. She is the Editor-in-chief of the Bangladeshi Identity Project, a media platform for the Bangladeshi diaspora</p> Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/thealienchronicles/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/thealienchronicles/support</a> This podcast is sponsored by <a href="https://anchor.fm/s/70badcc/podcast/sponsor/acugi1/url/https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm">Anchor</a>
