Wasim Ahmad is an assistant teaching professor teaching journalism at Quinnipiac University. He's worked at newspapers in Minnesota, Florida and upstate New York, and has previously taught multimedia journalism at Stony Brook University and Syracuse University.

Wasim also has photography industry experience, having previously worked as a technical specialist at Canon USA, and he is also a senior staff writer at Fstoppers.com.

Wasim is a Ph.D. candidate in Mass Communications at Syracuse University. He has previously graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Binghamton University and a Master of Science in photography at Syracuse University.

His work has been recognized by the Freedom Forum and the Center for Innovation in College Media, but by far the award he's most proud of is the 2013 "Seniors' Choice" award for best professor in the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University.

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(Photo by Heather Khalifa)