Award-Winning Journalist and storyteller.
Neda Toloui-Semnani is an author, journalist, and storyteller. Her work has received numerous awards, including seven News and Documentary EMMYs for her work with VICE News and VICE News Tonight. Her byline has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, VICE News, New York Magazine, The Baffler, and Roll Call. She is a core faculty member at Goucher College's graduate program for Creative Nonfiction. Her book They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents was published in 2021 by Little A.
Neda holds an MSc. in gender and social policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an MFA in nonfiction from Goucher College. She completed her undergrad at the University of Maryland, College Park. She was named a 2018 fellow with the Logan Nonfiction Program and a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA fellow in Nonfiction.
She co-founded Revolution Street Productions, a nonfiction storytelling collective, in 2024.
She grew up in Washington, D.C., and is based in Brooklyn, where she lives with a small dog, a large cat, a funny kid, and a man she calls Stretch.
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