Aqilah Allaudeen

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Aqilah Allaudeen is a Singaporean multi-media journalist and current graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Her extensive travels around the world sparked her curiosity and passion to engage with issues at the intersection of social justice and business – finding that every business story has a profound socioeconomic consequence. She has covered a range of stories spanning globally from Chicago’s immigrant communities to unemployment rates in South Africa.

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Asylum City: The harrowing stories of six asylum seekers who now call Chicago home

By Sarah Conway, Michelle Kanaar, Apoorva Mittal, and Kash What exactly drives tens of thousands of asylum seekers to travel weeks, months, even years to come to the United States? Those who make the perilous journey…
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A Muslim Woman Comic Walks into a Bar: Changing Perceptions Through Jokes

WHY WE WROTE THIS Satire is often used to educate and broach tough topics. As negative perceptions of Islam persist throughout the U.S., some Muslim women are trying a softer way to build bridges: comedy. …