Mona Iskander is a Peabody award-winning producer of long form newsmagazines and documentaries. Her work has appeared on Netflix, CNN, MSNBC, History Channel, PBS, NPR and more. Her projects have taken her around the world: the streets of Cairo to report on the revolution, Amman to investigate the youth unemployment crisis, the far flung atolls of Kiribati in the South Pacific to investigate climate change, and across the United States.

Most recently, Mona won a Peabody award for a film she produced and wrote about the maternal health crisis in Mississippi one year after the Dobbs decision. She also recently reported on the crisis at the US-Mexico border for USA Today and she produced three films profiling Americans struggling through the pandemic for the Intercept. She has developed projects for production companies like Room 608 and Story Syndicate. Previously, she was a staff producer and correspondent for PBS news magazine shows, including NewsHour Weekend, Need to Know and NOW with David Brancaccio.

In addition to her work as a producer and correspondent, she is a founding board member of the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association. This professional organization is dedicated to fostering a flourishing network of Arab-American journalists and to advocating accurate coverage of issues related to the community. Recently, she was interviewed by various media outlets including NPR about implicit bias in Ukraine coverage.

Mona is Egyptian-American and speaks conversational Arabic, French and Spanish. She is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and Boston University. She lives in New York.