Amina Waheed
A multimedia reporter and aspiring documentary film maker, Amina began her career in journalism while working on community-based programs in Chicago’s inner-city. Her grassroots work around connecting urban, immigrant and indigenous communities motivated her to share their stories by using digital media tools in creative ways.
Inspired by local initiatives in Chicago’s South side neighborhoods, Amina set out to the West Bank to pursue media and research related internships. Her time in the Middle East, combined with her experience working with different ethnic communities across the US, solidified her interest in documenting global grassroots movements through visual storytelling. Most recently, she took a road trip through the southwestern United States for her work on “Bailout: The Dukes of Moral Hazard” a feature film which explores the financial and foreclosure crisis through the eyes of working Americans, Studs Terkel style.
Amina was born and raised in an American oil-town in Saudi Arabia, and later moved to the Midwest as an Indian-Canadian immigrant. Her reporting interests in urban and international affairs stem from her diverse transnational and multicultural experiences. When she’s not crossing borders, she can be found satiating her musical appetite in drumming cyphers.