Presenter, Senior Producer, Documentarian
AJ+/Al Jazeera
Imaeyen Ibanga is a presenter, documentarian, and senior producer with AJ,+, the digital video arm of Al Jazeera. In October 2021 she debuted her new series “ZIP Codes with Imaeyen,” a show about how where we live instructs how we live. Since then she’s debuted stories on some of the most marginalized communities like Asian adoptees in transracial families, trans parents, incarcerated women, and people without housing.
Before “ZIP Codes,” managed a team producing contextualized domestic and international long-form news videos for YouTube. And, prior to AJ+, Imaeyen produced text stories, social media, and breaking news video stories during her tenures at NBC News, CNN, and ABC News.
Imaeyen Ibanga was made for the internet, which means she’s team kitty cats, comment sections, and memes are her love language.
Table Talks: Words Mean Things: Stripping Journalism Jargon of Its White Supremacy
Thursday, August 24, 2023
4:00pm – 5:00pm EDT
Recognizing Inequities in Artificial Intelligence with Meredith Broussard
Saturday, August 26, 2023
11:30am – 12:30pm EDT
Karen Hao: Reporting, staffing and using generative AI in newsrooms
Friday, September 29, 2023
11:00am – 11:45am EDT