https://www.nedasemnani.com/home daily 1.0 2022-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f206bdc73eab28dc7688b3/6bd1c2c2-e3c4-43f0-ab8d-273e203fcf0d/Book_nobkgrnd+.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nedasemnani.com/about daily 0.75 2025-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f206bdc73eab28dc7688b3/5001d49a-5dea-4365-ac30-64ae9eb7429e/Neda+2024+Headshot+1.jpg About - 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. https://www.nedasemnani.com/work daily 0.75 2025-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847743861-GWVMBPD7Z7WQRQL9IZZ8/Large+JPG-Aro+Ha_0380.jpg Work https://www.nedasemnani.com/book daily 0.75 2024-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f206bdc73eab28dc7688b3/7297e820-bbbc-4898-b643-4b4a325be2bf/Book.png Book - From a daughter of Iranian revolutionaries, activists, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers comes a gripping and emotional memoir of family and the tumultuous history of two nations. In 1979, Neda Toloui-Semnani’s parents left the United States for Iran to join the revolution. But the promise of those early heady days in Tehran was warped by the rise of the Islamic Republic. With the new regime came international isolation, cultural devastation, and profound personal loss for Neda. Her father was arrested and her mother was forced to make a desperate escape, pregnant and with Neda in tow. Conflicted about her parents’ choices for years, Neda realized that to move forward, she had to face the past head-on. Through extensive reporting, journals, and detailed interviews, Neda untangles decades of history in a search for answers. Both an epic family drama and a timely true-life political thriller, They Said They Wanted Revolution illuminates the costs of righteous activism across generations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Book https://www.nedasemnani.com/video daily 0.75 2022-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Video https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/producer monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/senior-producer monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/show-writer monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/supervising-writer monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/talent monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/v/the-battle-over-psychedelic-therapys-future-vice-news-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-05-25 https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/v/we-spoke-to-queer-people-hiding-from-the-taliban monthly 0.5 2022-05-25 https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/v/ahmaud-arbery-and-the-racist-history-of-citizens-arrest-laws-vice-on-showtime-2021 monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/v/generation-tiktok-vice-on-showtime-2020 monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/v/wednesday-morning-flow-w8jdl-h8jah monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/v/what-its-like-being-arrested-by-the-nypd-for-protesting monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/v/coronavirus-is-devastating-navajo-nation monthly 0.5 2022-01-16 https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/v/new-york-protesters-wont-be-silenced-by-curfew monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/v/these-drawings-could-decide-the-2022-elections monthly 0.5 2022-01-16 https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/v/return-of-the-taliban-a-vice-special-report-showtime-documentary-film monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/v/can-new-yorks-first-female-governor-clean-up-the-most-corrupt-state monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/v/on-the-frontlines-of-a-louisiana-hospital-as-covid-rages monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/v/the-double-standard-for-patriotism-in-america monthly 0.5 2022-01-16 https://www.nedasemnani.com/video/v/the-prison-wildfire-evacuation-that-led-to-a-riot monthly 0.5 2022-01-16