Rajaa Elidrissi is a Moroccan-American communications professional and journalist based in Doha, Qatar. She is the Editorial and Media Director at Georgetown University in Qatar, where she leads editorial storytelling and media relations.

Before joining Georgetown, Elidrissi was a producer at MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), where she worked on The Weekend: Primetime and AYMAN and frequently contributed to All In with Chris Hayes. Her work focused on U.S. politics, foreign policy and immigration.

Previously, Elidrissi spent more than six years at Vox as a research producer on the international video team. She worked on stories about global affairs, including wars and conflicts in Afghanistan, Sudan and Gaza, as well as explainers on topics including sports and U.S. elections.

Elidrissi holds an M.S. from Columbia Journalism School’s investigative journalism program and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. She has taught journalism at Wesleyan, where she led a course on reporting global issues, and previously served on the board of the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association.

Her work has received Writers Guild and Emmy Award nominations. She was also part of a team that received a Knight Award for Public Service for collaborative reporting on accountability for COVID-19 deaths.