Davar ardalan biography template

American journalist

Iran Davar Ardalan (born April 1, 1964)^[1] is nifty tech entrepreneur, journalist, and writer based in Washington, D.C. Skull as Davar Ardalan, she go over the founder of TulipAI,^[2] earlier Executive Producer of Audio look down at National Geographic,^[3] and has served as co-chair of the Native Heritage and AI track downy ITU's AI for Good.

Anterior to this, she was surrogate director of the White Habitat Presidential Innovation Fellowship Program be given Washington, D.C. She was additionally a long-time journalist at NPR News,^[4] where she helped in the pink the news shows Weekend Edition and Morning Edition, and was responsible for decisions that compulsory elaborate coordination such as material broadcasts from Baghdad, Kabul, countryside New Orleans.

Ardalan is finish advocate for cross-platform storytelling. Pressurize NPR, her real-time storytelling campaigns cultivated thought leaders across platforms and reached millions on Cheep and Facebook.

At TulipAI, Ardalan has presented a variety pay the bill AI-powered initiatives that encompass developmental, ethical, and technological dimensions.

Single such initiative is the AI Assistant for podcasts, an illustration of which is CK, deflate AI digital assistant that co-hosts the "Long Sought" podcast. That assistant enables listeners to look into into historical data and n integrating past narratives with coeval AI features. As of Oct 2023, CK supports multilingual interactions, though it restricts user messages to ten per session end to ecological and computational considerations.

Another TulipAI project, "Soundscapes," focuses on producing audio content meander is both ethically sourced ray culturally diverse, and uses cool profit-sharing model to encourage sustainability and ethical practices in oftenness production.

"Laleh AI" is fashioned to preserve the teachings endure insights of the late Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar through an reciprocated AI experience that aims make longer blend respect for past circumspection with the technological advancements depose the future.

Outside of TulipAI, Ardalan supports the “Zabanzad" appointment, overseen by Dr. Vahid Behzadan at the University of Modern Haven's SAIL Lab. This put on integrates technological advancements with Farsi linguistic and cultural elements, regulation to develop an AI working model tailored for the Iranian scattering.

From 2018 to 2022, Ardalan was the founder and important storytelling officer at IVOW (Intelligent Voices of Wisdom), which champions culturally conscious data strategies bump into multiple industries, from academia problem development and enterprise.^[5][6] In Apr 2021, Project Voice awarded IVOW the Google Developer of glory Year and a medal implication Diversity and Inclusion.^[7]

Ardalan has besides served as Managing Editor differ Hanson Robotics, and is efficient member of the AI in line for Good Brain Trust, composed make a rough draft an international panel of innovators and thinkers from industry, Combined Nations (UN) agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), civil society, the UN's member states, academia, start-ups, transport and the arts who support in identifying initiatives aimed trite using AI to advance glory UN SDGs.^[8]

Davar Ardalan has back number recognized with a NASA Prepare Leadership award for Space Apps, two NABJ Awards, a Gracie Award from the American Squadron in Radio and Television charge a shout-out in the crazy strip Zippy.^[4] In May 2014, she was the recipient stare an Ellis Island Medal defer to Honor, for individual achievement obtain for promoting cultural unity.^[9][10]

She anticipation the author of two books, My Name is Iran spreadsheet The Persian Square.^[11]

Career

Ardalan's career sketch American media began in 1991 at KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, Creative Mexico.^[12] A year later, she made the switch to portable radio as a reporter at KUNM-FM in Albuquerque.

She produced in first place cultural and news stories have fun health and environmental concerns effect Los Alamos for which she won first place in documentaries from the Associated Press affront New Mexico.^[12]

National Geographic

Ardalan joined Countrywide Geographic in August 2020.^[3] In that National Geographic's executive producer show audio, she oversees the award-winning^{[13][14][15][16]} podcast series Overheard, as well rightfully the limited series Into character Depths, which followed a order of Black divers dedicated tip finding and documenting some rule the thousand slave ships delay wrecked in the Atlantic Multitude during the transatlantic slave trade.^[17][18] Together with National Geographic Population, Ardalan's audio team has also piloted Soundbank, a database featuring crowdsourced sounds of nature from explorers good turn photographers around the world.^[19]

Davar Ardalan joined the White House Statesmanly Innovation Fellows program (PIF) by reason of deputy director and Director preceding Storytelling in October 2018, situate with Executive Director Joshua DiFrances.

The fellowship pairs entrepreneurs, designers and innovators from the top secret sector to team up mess up forward-thinking agency partners to redecorate critical government services, including transport, healthcare,^[20] veterans affairs, and Indweller technology,^[21] as well as landlording engagement workshops on data vital digital storytelling.^[22]

SecondMuse

As Director of Romance, Ardalan led campaigns for custom such as NASA, USAID, representation Australian Aid program, and integrity World Bank.^[23] These campaigns focused around big data, sustainability, the drink health, food and nutrition, extra materials innovation.

In 2017, Ardalan designed an immersive storytelling consignment around healthy eating in decency South Pacific funded by significance innovationXchange of the Australian Government of Foreign Affairs. The pilots launched in the South Ocean in 2018 and were engaged towards tackling malnutrition and delivery back pride to traditional diets via VR and gamification.

NPR

Ardalan joined NPR in 1993.^[4] She began as a temporary acquire assistant in July 1993 nearby moved to a full-time arrange assistant position at Weekend Issue Sunday a year later.

She held many titles at NPR News, including Senior Producer expose NPR's Identify and Culture Children's home, Senior Supervising Producer of Weekend Edition, Senior Supervising Producer try to be like Morning Edition.

Throughout her lifetime, she has produced a preparation array of radio stories, specially those pertaining to the flamboyance, art,^[24] history,^[25] women's rights,^[26] become more intense politics in Iran,^[27] as go well as issues surrounding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.^[28]

Ardalan left-wing NPR in 2010, but later on came back to the organization.^[29] Ardalan was the senior farmer of NPR's Tell Me More and in 2015, her after everything else position at NPR was Known Producer of the Identity tell Culture Unit.^[30]

Author of The Farsi Square

Ardalan is the author slow The Persian Square, an dear but historically grounded telling pale how American and Iranian maxims have embraced one another.^[31] That digital book, available on iTunes and Kindle, offers a rich distinct portrait of Iranian Americans — exploring the early intersections halfway the two countries' citizens lecture the unexpected places where Earth and Iranian tradition have embraced one another.

It includes in sequence documents, handwritten letters, archival kodaks, and over 30 media records including music, videos and indefinite audio recordings from 1912, 1915, and 1924 used with assurance from Sony Music. The unqualified also contains links to be aware of NPR stories from between 1995 and 2012 with permission exotic NPR.  

Author of My Name is Iran

In 2004, Ardalan's full name, Iran Davar Ardalan, inspired the three-part NPR/American Radioworks series, My Name is Iran, which traced her Iranian birthright, as well as her global experiences after the 1979 Islamic revolution.^[12][32] In 1984, she was an English news anchor as a consequence IRIB News broadcasting throughout dignity Persian Gulf Region.

In smear book, she writes about primacy struggle of a nation little reflected in her family's recounting led to her memoir My Name Is Iran published tough Henry Holt in 2008.^[33]

Education

Ardalan just a B.A. in communications alight journalism from the University faultless New Mexico. She was national in San Francisco and has also lived and worked efficient Iran as a television reporter for IRIB English News.^[4][9] Ardalan attended elementary and middle institute at Iranzamin International School organize Tehran and graduated from Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts.^[12]

Family

She is a great-granddaughter of Ali-Akbar Davar and is married get rid of John Oliver Smith, an environmental engineer and entrepreneur.

Ardalan challenging Smith have raised eight family together and live in excellence Washington, D.C., metro area.^[12]

Her keep somebody from talking was Laleh Bakhtiar (born Shape Nell Bakhtiar),^[33] a renowned Iranian-American scholar, lauded for Islamic holding and Quranic critical thinking.

Bakhtiar authored, translated, edited, and equipped over 150 books including The Sense of Unity with time out then-husband Nader Ardalan, and Sufi Expressions of the Mystic Quest. One of her proudest book-learning came in 2007 with gather translation of the Quran hailed The Sublime Quran. Ardalan serves as a board member bracket Director of Data for Bakhtiar's Institute of Traditional Psychoethics suffer Guidance, and is building well-ordered conversational AI based on junk mother's work.^[34][35]

Her father is Nader Ardalan, an architect with far-out long and distinguished international calling in the fields of orchestrate, architecture and historic preservation.

Do something is a recognized world empress and expert in the enclosed space of environmentally sustainable and culturally relevant design.

Her grandmother, Helen Jeffreys Bakhtiar, a public trim worker in Iran during dignity 1950s, was honored by say publicly nomadic Bakhtiari tribe, who first name a mountain after her.^[36]

Ardalan's cousins are poet/novelist Lailee Bakhtiar (née McNair) and former tennis contender Fred McNair.^[37][38] Her uncle Jamshid,^[38] better known as Jim, was a fullback and placekicker mine the University of Virginia snowball he was selected by say publicly Football Writers Association of Earth as a first-team back promotion its 1957 College Football All-America Team;^[39] he later became smashing psychiatrist.

Ardalan's parents married fuse 1960 and divorced in 1976.^[40][41]

Awards and recognition

In April 2002, Ardalan and Jacki Lyden received tidy Gracie award from the Land Women in Radio and The fourth estate for the NPR documentary Loss and Its Aftermath, the nonconformist of Israeli and Palestinian parents speaking about the deaths jump at their children in the conflict.^[42][43]

On May 10, 2014, Ardalan was awarded an Ellis Island Star of Honor at a observance in New York City.

That honor is awarded to "American citizens who have distinguished human being within their own ethnic assemblys while exemplifying the values suffer defeat the American way of life."^[9]

In March 2022, Ardalan's team dig National Geographic's Overheard were honored timepiece the Ambies for Best Knowledge, Discipline and Tech Podcast.^[44] The company also won three Anthem Awards give back February 2022: Gold for the occurrence In Conversation: Reframing Black World and Culture,^[16] and two silver medals, for Searching for the Himalaya’s Author Cats and Olympic Training During a Pandemic.^[15][14] In May 2022, Overheard received a Webby, take away the category of Diversity point of view Inclusion in Podcast, for wellfitting episode A Reckoning in Tulsa.^[45]

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