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Quickie AA bio:
Grew up in Marrakech in Morocco. Got BA in Media Studies in 2007 and Masters in Journalism from Columbia University in 2009. Afte Hunter in 2007, worked for a year as a researcher for the ABC news show, Good Morning America.
At Hunter, worked with non-profit organizations on campus, such as the American Cancer Society to organize the annual Relay for Life, and fought on behalf of Hunter with NYPIRG against tuition hikes.
Created a student newspaper, The WORD Print,* that followed the tradition of a community newspaper, giving students who were eager to learn about journalism an opportunity to be involved in a serious, news-oriented publication.
In college, also interned for the ABC Evening News in New York City in 2006.
*Affiliated with hunterword.com but was independently student-run. Bit the dust about a year after Alami graduated from Hunter. She was the driving force. Â It had a lot of promise. It also was a source of a lot aggravation for the anti-WORD forces in D:F/M. And that means a post real soon to explain.
Tags: Aida Alami, Huffington Post, Hunter College, Hunter student activist, Morroco, NYPIRG, The WORD, The WORD print
[...] In the course of working on the grant, I circumvented various ploys to undermine it. At one department meeting a serious round of jeering and sneering and ad hominem derision erupted, primarily but not exclusively from two non-tenured Colleagues teaching in the film major and the Deputy Chair. Others joined in though not as vociferously as the “ring leaders.” Several, including the Chair, were also upset that some students had started a print newspaper modeled after the online version of the WORD. They called it The WORD print. [...]