Hi, I'm Azeen (like "magazine," minus the "mag.")
I'm a reporter at the New York Times covering the intersection of sex, gender, and science. I was previously at BuzzFeed News, where I was a reporter and editor, eventually leading our newsroom’s coverage of the pandemic.
In 2020, I was part of a sprawling investigation — looking at how the world’s biggest banks facilitate money laundering and corruption — that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. (I also got to host the project’s very exciting podcast.) You can find my work in the 2017 edition of Best American Science & Nature Writing. In 2015, I was a finalist for a Livingston Award in the national reporting category for my reporting on sexual harassment in science departments at elite American universities. From 2013 to 2014, I received a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award, the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing’s Clark/Payne Award, as well as an Association of Alternative Newsmedia Award for longform journalism.
In a former life, I researched fruit fly neurogenetics at UC Berkeley, where I got my bachelor's degree in Molecular and Cell Biology.
I am, with good reason, fairly certain I’ve watched more fly sex than you.