Aisha Al-Muslim is a broadcast journalism student with a concentration in urban
studies at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Journalism.
Al-Muslim expects to graduate in December 2009.
Al-Muslim is a graduate from Lehman College of the City University of New York, where she
majored in multilingual journalism, and minored in Italian and Black Studies. She was on
the Dean's List and graduated with summa cum laude honors.
At Lehman, she was the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, the Meridian
(lcmeridian.com). In 2007, she established the Lehman Student Chapter of the National
Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) and was the president until she graduated in
2008.
She has interned at WCBS-TV, WABC-TV, People en Espaņol, and CBS Evening News'
Weekend Edition. She is currently interning for the summer at WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New
York.
She is a member of NAHJ and was the national student representative of the organization
from 2007 to 2008. She is also a member of the National Association of Black Journalists
and New York Women in Communications, Inc.
Born in the Republic of Panama, the Brooklyn resident has a passion for languages
including Spanish, Italian, and French. Her goal is to be a television reporter.
