Sonya Fatah is a freelance journalist based in Toronto, Canada. Fatah's work has appeared in numerous publications around the world including The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, GlobalPost.com, Al Jazeera and Columbia Journalism Review. Fatah is the recipient of numerous grants for writing and documentary projects. These include the Panos South Asia Fellowship, the CSE Science Writing Fellowship and the India Foundation for the Arts Documentary Grant. The last grant was to support a feature documentary project on a classical dancer from Pakistan. She has a graduate degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, as well as Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. In addition to freelancing, she also teaches journalism (feature writing, social issues and media law) in Toronto.

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• Reporting Grants For Women’s Stories, Grantee, 2017