Interview with Sadaf Ali

Item

Title
Interview with Sadaf Ali
Description
Dr. Sadaf Ali is a professor of Digital Media, Cinema, and Journalism at Eastern Michigan University, and has been working at EMU since 2012. Ali recounts how she became interested in news media, what led her to pursue a career in broadcasting, and her career working in journalism and broadcasting prior to coming to work at EMU. Ali describes her commitment to covering diverse stories, creating audio story and writing an article for WEMU about the Afghan refugee led cooking class coordinated by Zuzana Tomas’s Academic Service-Learning class, and the cultural importance of food as a person of Pakistani descent. Ali also discusses how refugees are depicted in the media, being a second generation American, and future journalism projects she would like to work on.
performer
Sadaf Ali
interviewer
Elizabeth Allen & Finn Vincent-Fix
Subject
Sadaf Ali, journalism, broadcasting, news media, radio, refugees, Afghan, Eastern Michigan University
Publisher
Eastern Michigan University Archives
Center for Oral History Research at Eastern Michigan University
Language
English
Rights
Copyright to the audio resource and its transcript is held by the content creator, author, artist or other entity, and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any other format without written permission of the copyright owner, Eastern Michigan University Archives (lib_archives@emich.edu).