Antonia Noori Farzan is an American journalist. She was educated in

Hamilton College Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. It was founded as Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton, following ...

and

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. Farzan was a journalist for ''

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'', ''

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'' and the ''

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''. She writes for the ''

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''. In 2017 Farzan won the

George Polk Award The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website of PBS, described the awar ...

with Joseph Flaherty for her article in the ''Phoenix New Times'' which revealed "that Motel 6 motels in Phoenix, Arizona, provided nightly guest rosters to ICE".

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