Award-Winning Journalist and storyteller.
Neda Toloui-Semnani is an author, journalist, podcaster, and storyteller. Her work has received numerous awards, including seven News and Documentary EMMYs for her work with VICE News and VICE News Tonight. Her byline has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, VICE News, New York Magazine, The Baffler, and Roll Call. Her book They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents was published in 2021 by Little A. Currently, she's an assistant teaching professor of Broadcast journalism and an affiliate with the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University.
Neda holds an MSc. in gender and social policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MFA in nonfiction from Goucher College, and a B.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park. She was named a 2018 fellow with the Logan Nonfiction Program and a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA fellow in Nonfiction.
She lives in State College, PA, with her kid and a man she calls Stretch.
She co-founded Revolution Street Productions, a nonfiction storytelling collective, in 2024.
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