Shadi Rahimi is a Senior Producer at AJ+, Al Jazeera’s online channel. She was one of the first journalists ever to use Facebook Live to broadcast – and did so in Europe reporting on the refugee crisis. She was awarded Al Jazeera’s top honor in 2016, given once a year to only one person in each entity of the Al Jazeera Media Network. Shadi has been working in digital media for 10 years, beginning at The New York Times. She spent three years reporting in Egypt during the revolution, where she helped launch an award-winning web documentary project. She’s also been awarded the Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace, Chips Quinn Fellowship, Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism, Award of Excellence from the Freelance Unit of the Pacific Media Workers Guild, and the ONA-Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media. She received her M.A. in journalism from U.C. Berkeley.