Salwa Shameem

Salwa Shameem is an Emmy-nominated investigative journalist and producer who has a dual background in international development policy. Most recently she co-produced a feature length documentary for The New York Times Presents in partnership with Hulu and FX, investigating the roots of the teen vaping crisis and the role that e-cigarette giant JUUL played. The film was Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Medical and Health Coverage.

She also helped produce the Emmy and Peabody nominated short documentary series The Secret Life of Muslims, garnering millions of views.

Her production credits and bylines appear in The New York Times, Vox, and the Chicago Policy Review.

Alongside film, Salwa’s policy expertise spans poverty economics, human rights, and social impact more broadly. Her intersecting experiences in policy analysis, investigative reporting/research, and filmmaking all have one goal in common — to connect the dots and reveal underlying systemic problems.

Salwa speaks Hindi and Urdu.