Khalida Zohal Sarwari is a communications professional and journalist with 17 years of work experience in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Boston.
She is an enterprising and dedicated reporter who excels at identifying and reporting meaningful, powerful stories of all kinds, including news, human interest, as well as technical and scientific subject matter. Her work has garnered recognition from the California News Publishers Association and the California Teachers Association.
In addition to News@Northeastern and The Mercury News, her stories have appeared in The Sacramento Bee, Politico, Oakland Tribune, The Monterey County Herald, Miami Herald, The Vacaville Reporter, Daily Democrat, The Palo Alto Daily News, Vallejo Times-Herald, and East Bay Times.
Khalida launched her journalism career at Bay City News Service, a San Francisco-based wire service, after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication and Minor in History from Saint Mary’s College of California.
Afghan by heritage, Khalida spent a part of her childhood in Iran before moving with her family to the U.S. and eventually settling in Northern California at the age of 7. She has been passionate about writing and storytelling from a young age when she would spend hours penning short stories, poems, and newspaper stories.
In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, hiking, crossword puzzles, yoga, traveling, being outdoors, trying new recipes, attempting to make the perfect espresso, and reading.