Name: Ninar Taha

Recipient Year: 2025

Major: Documentary Journalism

Description: Ninar Taha is a Sudanese-American visual storyteller and researcher raised in Richmond, VA and currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated with a B.A. in Global Development Studies from the University of Virginia and went on to work in international development research before transitioning to documentary journalism. She is a 2025 cohort member of the Third World Newsreel Film Production Workshop and an incoming graduate student at CUNY, Craig Newmark School of Journalism with a documentary specialization.

School Name: CUNY, Craig Newmark School of Journalism

Sponsor: Ghulam and Arifa Azad Family Scholarship

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninartaha