Jennifer Chowdhury

Shortly after @ZohranKMamdani won the Democratic nomination for NYC mayor, I joined a Bangladeshi community media panel to discuss his historic campaign. When I mentioned how Mamdani began his speech by thanking the “aunties,” the men laughed. tinyurl.com/3hyvtp82

Everyone should stop what they're doing and read this deeply heartbreaking and incredibly powerful new essay from Mahmoud Khalil about his old life -- the one he had before the Trump administration began unjustly targeting him. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

I spent 2 years in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. When I learned a refugee died after ICE left him alone in a Buffalo winter, it cut deep. I went looking for how the community was faring, I found hope: buff.ly/wE258rQ

🚨 US Immigration Agents left a refugee to die in the cold. His community is demanding justice. "Buffalo’s Rohingya community pushes for NY state law to protect immigrants after Nurul Amin Shah Alam’s death." By @Jenn_Chowdhury theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…

Immigrant families assimilated to a Protestant-built school calendar for over a century. Blaming Diwali, Eid, or Lunar New Year for the childcare crisis lets corporate America and its lack of paid leave off the hook: buff.ly/tqsIm5N

I don’t really want to get involved with the discourse but if you think magazine writing is bad rn for the average person, imagine being a POC writer who barely gets paid & also has to worry about their pitches being stolen by white staffers who parachute into our homelands.

From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. The cost of failing to regulate AI warfare is already too high. ** My thoughts @guardian theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

Thus far two Bangladeshi migrant workers have been killed by missile debris. The most recent came to Bahrain from the small island of Sandwip thedailystar.net/news/world/isr…

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.” — Edward W. Said

In 1910, Algerian migrant Muhammad Juda was denied entry at Ellis Island over one answer about polygamy. Today, 1M+ New Yorkers trace their roots to the Middle East & North Africa — shaping the city for 150+ years. Learn more: tinyurl.com/5zv4e8ze

@_roohi @TorontoStar transformative eldest immigrant daughter experience!

same here and I wrote about it for the @TorontoStar earlier this year!!! so proud of all of us🥹❣️thestar.com/life/travel/we…

Your smartphone can be a force multiplier for your reporting–and your earning potential. Learn how in a FREE webinar hosted by freelance journalists @Jenn_Chowdhury and Victoria Lim. Learn more and RSVP here: bit.ly/46DZnmY

Thinking about taking your reporting to social media? In this FREE webinar on Feb. 6, freelance journalists @Jenn_Chowdhury and Victoria Lim will share apps, gear, & strategies for capturing high quality photos and videos on a phone. RSVP here: bit.ly/46DZnmY

Disabled man dies after ICE detains father and caregiver Wael Tarabishi, 30, passed over the weekend of complications from Pompe Disease, a rare condition that required constant medical care. The family is calling for the release of his father and caregiver Maher Tarabishi to attend his son’s funeral. Diagnosed with Pompe Disease at the age of four, doctors said Wael would likely only live 5-10 more years. Instead, he thrived in the care of his father. After Maher’s detention, Wael experienced a number of health scares. In an interview with @journojudy for BT News in November, Wael said medical professionals often relied on his faher to understand his condition. “Even sometimes doctors ask him, ‘What should we do?'” "My father is my hero, my hope, my miracle, my motivation, my safe place, my sanity, my best friend, my only friend ... As long as he’s with me, nothing will happen to me. And as long I am with him, nothing else matters. Not a single person knows more about my condition than him," Wael told BT News. Maher Tarabishi, 62, was detained by ICE last October when he appeared at the Dallas ICE office for a scheduled appointment. The Department of Homeland Security has accused Tarabishi of “terrorist” connections to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, a claim the family denies.

Federal data obtained by the Deportation Data Project at UC Berkeley shows that more than 2,600 immigrant children across the country were arrested in 2025. port-of-entry.com/p/immigration-…

Somali families in Minneapolis responded to ICE raids by bringing food to protesters—themelves afraid to drive or be seen. That fear isn’t irrational. It’s shaped by histories of unaccountable armed power and sharpened by the Renee Good's death buff.ly/jqOtvnG

‘I Wanted Him Gone – But Not Like This’: Venezuelans in New York React to Maduro’s Capture documentedny.com/2026/01/05/i-w… via @Documentedny

For the first real workday of '26, I stuck to my morning writing routine, attempting to work on my memoir-in-progress, with a two-year-old singing #golden from #kpopdemonhunters and working on her sticker book next to me. Cutest colleague ever, though. #amwriting #creativewriting

Yellow cab driver Richard Chow was on hunger strike for medallion debt relief with Zohran Mamdani a little over four years ago. Today, he drove now Mayor Zohran Mamdani to City Hall for his inauguration in his taxi.

Shortly after @ZohranKMamdani won the Democratic nomination for NYC mayor, I joined a Bangladeshi community media panel to discuss his historic campaign. When I mentioned how Mamdani began his speech by thanking the “aunties,” the men laughed. tinyurl.com/3hyvtp82

No major U.S. distributor is willing to show a powerful film about how Israeli authorities refused to allow the rescue of a five-year-old girl, the sole survivor in a car filled with family members, who in turn was then killed. nytimes.com/2025/12/17/opi…