Shahrzad Elghanayan

Award-winning American journalist Shahrzad Elghanayan works at NBC News as a senior photo editor. Previously, she was at Bloomberg News and the Associated Press, where she was a supervisor on the national photo desk. Before her journalism career, she assisted with research at the human rights organization Freedom House.

Her op-eds based on the research for Titan of Tehran have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and CNN.com.

Born in Tehran and raised in Manhattan, she graduated from the Lycée Français and has a BA in political science from Columbia University. She lives in New York with her husband Douglas J. Rowe, a longtime journalist.