Spectrum

Tania Rashid views storytelling focusing on human rights and women’s issues through her own personal lens of experiences. Her life encounters have molded her into the journalist and filmmaker that she is – tracking down stories of the enslaved, the impoverished, and women who are abused, raped, trafficked and discounted by various societies. As a young girl, Rashid grew up in Saudi Arabia where she witnessed her Bangladesh mother be deprived of even the most basic rights – such as the right to drive or the right to an education. She then moved back to her ancestral home in Bangladesh where she found rampant governmental corruption, political instability and violence. From there, her family moved to the United States and settled in Utah where she was the “only brown, Muslim girl in my class, in a community of Caucasian Mormons.” Rashid learned first-hand what it felt like to be “different” and to be the target of racism, she says. Her background in the Middle East and South Asia combined with her being the sub