Tania Rashid is a journalist, documentary filmmaker, educator, and Story Producer with UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center. Over more than thirteen years, she has reported and produced public-interest stories across South Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the United States.

Her work has appeared with outlets including VICE, PBS NewsHour, Al Jazeera English, CNN International, NBC News, National Geographic, Channel 4 UK, Netflix, Peacock, and The Atlantic. Her reporting has examined the Rohingya refugee crisis, famine in Somalia, the Rana Plaza factory collapse, femicide in Honduras, organ trafficking, migration, labor exploitation, religious discrimination, misinformation, and conflict.

Rashid’s current work spans journalism, educational media, and mentorship. At UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center, she develops documentary stories on migration, race, empire, exclusion, war, and Asian American histories. She also mentors incarcerated writers through the Prison Journalism Project.

She holds an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in History from UCLA. Her work brings together international reporting, documentary storytelling, education, and lived experience as an immigrant to examine how global forces shape individual lives and communities.