Sadiya Ansari is a bestselling author and award-winning journalist based in London. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the Irish Times, and the Globe and Mail, among other publications. Her work has been supported by the Pulitzer Center, the International Center for Journalists, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Berlin Senate Department for Culture. She was a 2021 R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellow, 2023-2024 Asper Visiting Professor of Journalism at the University of British Columbia, and 2026 Journalist in Residence at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.