Author: Athiyah Azeem

Athiyah is an award-winning journalist with a passion for telling stories about marginalised communities around the world. She moved from Choa Chu Kang to Washington D.C. in 2016. She spent three years writing about local homelessness and housing issues for Street Sense Media, a D.C.-based nonprofit news outlet. She won a 2024 Society of Professional Journalists' award for beat reporting. She graduated with a degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Maryland in 2020, and her stories have appeared on PBS NewsHour and Voice of America. She's back home and is now a communications executive for AWARE, the leading women’s rights and gender equality group in Singapore. In her free time, she would love to keep shining spotlights on artists making an impact in our local art scene for Plural Art Magazine.