Telling Stories & Social Justice - 4/22/24

Conversation Overview

Join Shima Oliaee on Telling Stories & Social Justice. Her work focuses on the stories of the marginalized: Voices forced into silence, often ignored or maligned by the media.

Shima Oliaee is the CEO and founder of Shirazad Productions. Her work focuses on the stories of the marginalized: Voices forced into silence, often ignored or maligned by the media. Pink Card, her first independently-produced series, premiered in December 2022 at ESPN 30 for 30. It received a Murrow Award, honors from the Overseas Press Club, a National Headliner Award, two Gracie Awards, and two NY Festival of the Arts Awards. Oliaee also co-created Dolly Parton’s America, receiving a Peabody Award and a Murrow Award, along with several national honors. Her documentary Flag and the Fury won a duPont-Columbia Award and Best in Show at the National Headliner Awards. She created The Vanishing of Harry Pace for Radiolab, nominated for Best Audio Doc by the IDA, and her series UnErased was named podcast of the year by KQED News. After studying music and cinema at USC, Oliaee received her graduate degree in psychology from AULA. She worked as a teacher, a translator, and in comedy television, including the Golden Globe-winning Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Her next two investigative series will be released in 2024. Check out https://www.shimaoliaee.com/work for more!