Azeen Ghorayshi
Azeen Ghorayshi
Azeen Mehr Ghorayshi (Farsi: آذين مهر قريشى) is a science reporter for BuzzFeed News based in New York.
Education
Ghorayshi is a 2010 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Molecular and Cellular Biology. Ghorayshi went on to earn a Master of Science in Science Communication from Imperial College London in 2014.
Career
After completing her undergraduate education, Ghorayshi remained at Berkeley for a year to research fruit fly neurogenetics at the university's Scott Lab. Ghorayshi's first job in journalism was as an Online Editorial Fellow at Mother Jones from 2011 to 2012. Thereafter, Ghorayshi joined the East Bay Express, where she worked as a staff writer from 2012 to 2013. Ghorayshi then worked as a freelance journalist while completing her graduate degree, during which time her work appeared in outlets including the Guardian, Newsweek, New Scientist, and Wired UK.
Ghorayshi joined the staff of BuzzFeed News as a science reporter in 2015. Among Ghorayshi's areas of focus at BuzzFeed has been sexual harrasment in science, and she has broken stories that have led to the resignation of renowned Berkeley astronomer Geoffrey Marcy and the suspension of Arizona State University theoretical physicist and celebrity atheist Lawrence Krauss.
Honors
Ghorayshi is recipient of a 2013 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award and the 2014 Clark/Payne Award for young science journalists. Ghorayshi's work has also been featured in the 2017 edition of Best American Science and Nature Writing .