Shazia is an op-ed columnist at Norway’s largest newspaper and news site, focusing on healthcare, education, and women’s rights. Mom of two young men. Winner of SKUP Award for 2019 for excellence in investigative reporting; Norwegian Booksellers Award for best non-fiction 2019 for “Ut av skyggene” (“Stepping Out of the Shadows”); shortlisted for The Brage Award and The Norwegian Literary Critics Award. Fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford.