Alia Dastagir
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Alia Dastagir is journalist and an award-winning former reporter for USA Today whose work focuses on gender and mental health. Dastagir was one of eight U.S. recipients of the prestigious Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. She won a first-place National Headliner Award for a series on suicide and was awarded the American Association of Suicidology’s Public Service Journalism Award. The Media Awards Committee for the Council on Contemporary Families named her story on America’s lack of affordable childcare the winner for Outstanding Media Coverage of Family Issues. Her book, To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person: Words as Violence and Stories of Women's Resistance Online, will be published by Crown in February 2025. She is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing at NYU where she is an Axinn fellow.
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