Kimiya Shokoohi is a science journalist whose reported from four continents. Her work can be found across the BBC as well as 

numerous publications.  

 

Kimiya first joined the BBC as part of the World 2020 expansion project. From West Africa, she and teams across Africa and Europe produced short documentaries from developing regions. While in journalism school, she had her first by-line published in a story about British Columbia's connection to the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, published in the Vancouver Sun in 2008. She was selected to cover the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games as an "IOC Young Reporter" in a pilot project and later returned to help the Olympic Broadcasting Services launch a multi-platform media studio. She has since expanded the scope of her reporting to the wider sciences.

 

Kimiya holds a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia and Master of Arts degree in Specialized Journalism from the University of Southern California, where she attended on a full scholarship. Kimiya was born in Tehran, Iran, and immigrated to Canada in the early 90s.