D. Parvaz
Editor, Weekend Edition
D. Parvaz is an editor at Weekend Edition. Prior to joining NPR, she worked at several news organizations covering wildfires, riots, earthquakes, a nuclear meltdown, elections, political upheaval and refugee crises in several countries.
She got her start in journalism in Tokyo, where she worked on the international desk of the Asahi Evening News. She went on to work in several U.S. newsrooms, including the Arizona Republic, The Seattle Times, and Seattle Post-Intelligencer, for which she covered features, breaking news and foreign policy. Parvaz was also a senior producer and editor at Al Jazeera, where she reported on conflict, democracy, and human rights for seven years. She's covered a lot of ground – reporting on the fight for press freedoms in post-Gadhafi Libya, elections in Afghanistan and the effort to save Yazidi girls from ISIS in Iraq.
Born in Iran, Parvaz was raised in Tehran, Dubai and Vancouver.
