Samia Khan
Director of Partnerships, Producer, Director
Samia leads partnership development at MediaStorm, an award-winning digital storytelling company based in Brooklyn, NY. In this role, she has led the development of storytelling initiatives for dozens of partners, these projects have included interactive websites, feature documentaries, shorts, and animations. She is dedicated to using the power of collective action and storytelling to build a more just world and in this vein, develops outreach and impact strategies for relevant stories. Samia is a co-producer of MediaStorm’s first feature-length original film, Fight Hate with Love. Some of the recent partnerships she has led and stories she has co-produced include The Trials of Spring, The Long Night, and MediaStorm’s first ever partnership with CNN and Soledad O'Brien, The War Comes Home.
Prior to coming to joining MediaStorm, Samia spent a decade working on human rights and development issues in Kenya, Pakistan, and the United States; with organizations like the UNDP, UNCDF, the World Bank, and Ashoka. She is a proud member of New York City’s only woman of color improv group, Xxcalibur.
Samia holds a Master's in Public Administration from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, her son, and her dog - one of MediaStorm's office pets.
As the U.S. prepares for the final drawdown of soldiers from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Soledad O’Brien and MediaStorm take an intimate look at two veterans as they struggle with the transition from war to home.