Award-winning Afghan journalist Farida Nekzad will graduate from Carleton’s School of Journalism and Communication on June 18, 2024 after fleeing the Taliban in the summer of 2021. With the help of Carleton’s president and provost, the dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs, and the Scholars at Risk program, she became a Journalist in Residence and, in 2022, was admitted to the MA program in Journalism. Her story can be found here.