Anushay Hossain

Anushay Hossain is a journalist and political analyst whose work is featured on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, and more. She graduated from the University of Virginia (UVA) and completed her MA in Gender and Development at the University of Sussex.[1]

Hossain began her career as an intern in her native country, Bangladesh, at the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) where she had worked on micro-finance and primary education programs for women and girls.

Hossain writes about feminism, U.S. foreign policy and South Asian nations, particularly Bangladesh, in her columns.[2] Her writing has been published on CNN, Forbes, Medium, the Daily Beast, HuffPost, Women in the World, and more. [3] She is also Managing Director of The Daily Ittefaq.[4]

Hossain is the granddaughter of Bangladeshi journalist, Tofazzal Hossain Manik Miah.

Hossain lives in Washington, DC with her Iranian-American husband and their two young daughters. [5]