Tasmiha Khan
Fellow, Future of Work Reporting
Tasmiha Khan is a journalist in the Chicago area who reports on health equity, immigration, and caregiving. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, TIME, National Geographic, The Washington Post, The 19th, and Prism Reports, and she was recently quoted in Fast Company. Her Prism Reports investigation into refugee and immigrant mothers in U.S. higher education won a 2025 Peter Lisagor Award and was adopted into Harvard Kennedy School’s curriculum.
She is a 2026 Medill Data-Driven Reporting Project grantee, a Nova Institute Media Fellow, and a former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, with additional fellowships from the Pulitzer Center and the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism. Trained in neuroscience and a former campaign director focused on maternal justice, she reports on how caregiving, immigration status, and economic systems shape families’ access to opportunity. As a Future of Work Reporting Fellow, she will examine whether immigrant mothers can reach Illinois’ federally funded semiconductor training pipeline. She is a mother of three.
This bio reflects the fellow’s work and affiliations as of their fellowship year.