Hi, I’m Areeba

I’m a staff writer at Salon covering news and politics with a focus on far-right extremism. As a reporter committed to examining issues through an equity lens, my work often highlights issues impacting historically marginalized communities.

Previously, I was a researcher at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, where I worked on projects exposing government corruption and dark money spending in politics. I’ve also reported on how COVID-19 has impacted migrant farmworkers in the Midwest as a reporting fellow for the Pulitzer Center.

My work has included covering the coronavirus outbreak in nursing homes, working on a long-term project about immigration court in Chicago and reporting on the Democratic primaries in South Carolina.

I’m a graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism where I pursued a MSJ with a focus in Social Justice and Investigative Reporting. My work has appeared in The Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Reader, The Blade and Pakistan’s Friday Times. Check out more of my work here.