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ALIA DASTAGIR is a former reporter for USA Today who frequently covers gender and mental health. She was one of eight U.S. recipients of the prestigious Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. She won a first-place National Headliner Award for a series on suicide and was the first winner of the American Association of Suicidology’s Public Service Journalism Award. Dastagir has appeared on CNN, NPR, and C-SPAN to discuss her reporting. She is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing at NYU and her book, To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person: Words as Violence and Stories of Women’s Resistance Online, was recently published by Crown.