Farha Akhtar
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Farha Akhtar
Farha Akhtar is a former CBC Radio Producer with the award winning show The Current in Toronto, Canada. Over the years she has worked as a freelance producer and contributor for a variety of other CBC programs including The House and The Sunday Edition.
Farha’s podcasting work includes working for Pacific Content where she was the writer for Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing podcast: At Scale, recipient of a 2022 Gramercy Institutes Multi Country Award for Creative Execution. She also served as writer for the podcast Targeting the Toughest Diseases.
Farha is a recipient of a 2022 Diversity Fellowship from the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), a 2022 Fellowship from the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources (IJNR) and a 2022 Fellow of the Uproot Project (financially supported by the independent media organization Grist). The Uproot Project is supporting her to produce a documentary on the impact of mega dams and hydro-projects on Indigenous communities.
Farha is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University as well as an alum of the University of Regina School of Journalism.
