Fatema Hosseini is an Afghan freelance journalist and a first-year Master student at the University of Maryland. She received her bachelor of Liberal Arts from the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh, with a major in Politics, Philosophy, Economics. She returned to Afghanistan in 2019 and began working as a journalist for Kabul Now, an online media published by the award winning newspaper, Etilaatroz in Kabul. In April 2021, she began to write as a freelancer for USA Today. She has chosen to pursue her master in investigative journalism to uncover corruptions, discriminations and inequalities, and persecution of Hazaras and other ethnic minorities in Afghanistan.