Maryam Ahmad is a writer on the intersection of politics and pop culture, specifically South Asian and Muslim representation in film and TV. She has written for The Polis Project, Tell-Tale TV, Nerdist, Joysauce, Fann (now American Muslim Project), and for her college newspaper, The Wellesley News. She is a 2024 graduate from Wellesley College with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Cinema and Media Studies.

Maryam has covered a wide range of topics as a journalist: from the Harris campaign’s TikTok strategy to Ms. Marvel’s problematic associations with djinn in her Disney+ show, and student advocacy on campus at Wellesley. She has spent the last three years as a freelance writer on pop culture, covering a wide variety of science fiction and fantasy media through reviews, interviews, and commentary. Most recently, Maryam was a Production Assistant for The Polis Project’s podcast, It’s Not You, It’s The Media. She managed the podcast’s social media and Substack newsletter.

She spent three years as an editor, and one as Editor-in-Chief of The Wellesley News, and worked to increase the publication’s online presence, through social media and through a podcast, The Word on Wellesley. Maryam covered student advocacy on campus. As a student, Maryam conducted a semester-long research project on Ms. Marvel, a.k.a. Kamala Khan, researching her evolution in the comics as a member of different ethnic, religious, and superhero communities. As an intern for Fann/The American Muslim Project, Maryam spearheaded an interview series titled “Fall Into Reading,” which included interviews with ten Muslim women authors of middle-grade and children’s literature.