Shaheen Pasha
Shaheen Pasha is a founder and chief education officer of Prison Journalism Project.
Shaheen is an associate teaching professor at Penn State University, focused on mass incarceration and prison education. Prior to that, Shaheen was an assistant professor at UMass Amherst, where she launched an immersive explanatory journalism class at the Hampshire County Jail, bringing incarcerated and UMass students together to learn. Shaheen was awarded the Knight Nieman Visiting Fellowship in 2018 to expand her work teaching journalism behind bars.
She is a veteran journalist with over 20 years of experience at outlets such as Thomson Reuters, CNNMoney and Dow Jones/WSJ. She is currently serving on the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project.
