Halima Kazem-Stojanovic is an investigative journalist and filmmaker who specializes in reporting on human rights and social justice issues. Halima teaches journalism and human rights at San Jose State University and is finishing her Ph.D. in Feminist Studies and Social Documentary film at the University of California Santa Cruz. She has been a journalist for 20 years and spent almost a decade reporting on the war and rebuilding efforts in Afghanistan.  Her work has been published in the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, the San Francisco Chronicle, Al Jazeera, and more. Halima’s Ph.D. research focuses on the development and impact of women’s rights and gender reform programs, as part of human rights agendas, in conflict or post-conflict countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq. Halima has worked as a human rights researcher for the United Nations, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International. She is the recipient of a 2002 Scripps-Howard for journalistic excellence, a published children’s book author and a documentary filmmaker. Halima has a BS in Journalism from San Jose State University and a MA in Business and Economic Journalism from New York University.