Zomorodi, who is of part Iranian descent, was born and raised in Princeton, New Jersey and studied English and Fine Arts at Georgetown University.

[5] In 2017, Zomorodi teamed up with ProPublica to launch "Breaking the Black Box",[6] an investigation into Facebook's collection of their users' personal data.

This was followed by "The Privacy Paradox",[7] a five-part podcast and audience engagement series that aimed to help Facebook users to take control of their own data.

The podcast covers their attempts to obtain funding for their company, ideas for new projects, and candid discussions by both co-founders about the financial risk they were taking, and the effect of running the startup on their personal lives.

Zomorodi was named the host of the TED Radio Hour[16] in November 2019, and Poyant was planning on taking side projects on contract, but with COVID-19 shutting down advertising funding in early 2020, Stable Genius Productions did not have the financial runway to continue producing the podcast as a partnership.

[22] Zomorodi is the author of the books Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self[23] and Camera Ready: How to Present Your Best Self and Ideas On Air and Online.