FORA.tv Speaker - Kelly Golnoush Niknejad

Kelly Golnoush Niknejad is Founder of Tehran Bureau. She was born in Iran and moved to the United States shortly after she turned 17. She studied political science and writing in college, and emphasized international law in her coursework in law school, including two summers of residential studies in European law in Paris, France. She was admitted to practice law in California and before the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. She started her news career on the staff of a news agency in Southern California, where she covered legal affairs for two years, and at a small newspaper in Massachusetts, where she was a general assignment reporter. She then moved to New York City and earned two masters degrees in journalism from Columbia University, the first with an emphasis in print, and the second specializing in politics and government. Golnoush is on the board of the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association. She has reported for the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, TIME Magazine, California Lawyer and PBS/Frontline, among others. Before starting Tehran Bureau, she was a staff reporter at The National newspaper in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.