In May 2008, Guzder was the youngest student to complete a dual-degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism and School of International & Public Affairs. As a freelance reporter, her articles have appeared in the New York Blade, Chicago Tribune (Red Eye), New York Times syndicate, Black Star News, Providence Journal, Nonviolence in the News, Arab American, Chronicle-Herald, AdBusters Magazine, Indian American Magazine, Payvand Iran News, Global Exchange newsletter, Journal of International Affairs, Worcester Telegram & Gazette News, Arizona Central, The New York Resident, Common Dreams, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, CounterPunch, Panache, Indian Express, National Geographic Traveler (online) and elsewhere. Guzder currently lives in New York City where she runs a fledgling nonprofit organization: Students Together in Tackling Child Hunger(S.T.I.T.C.H). The organization buys hand-embroidered, georgette shirts wholesale from local retailers in India, who uphold ethical labor practices, and sells them for quadruple the price. Please browse the catalogue online. All of the profit goes to UNICEF so children, instead of corporations, benefit from inequality. The S.T.I.T.C.H project is in the process of gaining the IRS classification of 501(c)(3), a “charitable nonprofit." Guzder is working with her literary agent on a nonfiction book and freelancing for several publications. To see samples of Guzder's reporting, please visit her partial portfolio or request PDF copies of her work.



"The unexamined life is not worth living"
- Socrates

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”
- Ernesto Che Guevara

"If you're outraged at conditions, then you can't possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them and do nothing but that."
- César Chávez

"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."
- Noam Chomsky

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
- Albert Einstein

"Not all who wander are lost"
- J.R.R. Tolkein

"Dear Yale University: Thank you for your offer of admissions; however, since you have an odious record of producing awful presidents, I regret I must decline. Tsk."
- Lotsa love, Deena Guzder

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