Tasneem Raja is the current editor-in-chief for The Oaklandside, a non-profit newsroom based in Oakland, California that is funded by Google News Initiative and the American Journalism project.
She has worked for Mother Jones, The Chicago Reader, NPR Code Switch, and co-founded The Tyler Loop.
The daughter of immigrants from India and Pakistan, Raja was born and raised in Greater Philadelphia.
While news apps editor at The Bay Citizen, Raja's "team built a Bike Accident Tracker and a government salary database, among other things.
"[12] She's prominently written about diversity in computer science[13][14] as well as "brogrammer" culture in Silicon Valley.