From newsletter to media company.

One year of Port of Entry.

In 2018, reporting on Muslim women’s fashion for Elle magazine at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Read piece here.

Hi friends,

This week marks two back-to-school milestones in my house: my eldest daughter started kindergarten, and I started my Master’s in Creative Nonfiction at Hunter College—a program with a <2% acceptance rate. It’s a dream 13 years in the making.

But it’s also the first anniversary for this newsletter. I launched Port of Entry on September 4th of last year, with little expectation other than to share stories that matter. Since then, pieces from this newsletter have been republished in other outlets (here and here), our community has grown to over 550 readers, and this project has encouraged me to take a leap: turning Port of Entry Media into a full-fledged media business.

Stories about immigrants, migrants, and diaspora communities have been the backbone of my career in journalism. This newsletter is the creative, journalistic arm of Port of Entry Media. But I’m…