Mitra Nourbakhsh

Research Assistant

Mitra Nourbakhsh graduated from Northwestern in June 2026 with majors in Journalism and International Studies and a minor in Data Science. In addition to her four years as a research assistant for the State of the Local News Project, Mitra has worked at the Pittsburgh Business Times and Injustice Watch and served as Print Managing Editor of North by Northwestern magazine. She is currently in the first year of a master's program in Sociology at Sciences Po in Paris.