Mizgon Zahir Darby

About Me

Mizgon is a journalist who is driven by her passion to document the stories and bring to surface the voices and perspectives of underrepresented communities in the United States. Mizgon mainly covers a broad range of issues that are considered taboo in the Afghan Culture. With encouragement and guidance from fellow writers and editors and financial support from Pacific News Service, at age 18, Mizgon launched the first inter-generational Afghan-American magazine entitled Afghan Journal. After the events of 9/11 Afghan Journal became the only publication that voiced the otherwise censored voices of Afghans living in diaspora. In October 2009, Mizgon obtained her M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She currently resides in CA with her husband Keith. Her recent projects include collecting stories of older generation Afghan immigrant women and completing research with Professors at CSUEB on the lives of second generation Afghan-Americans.