Raamla Mohamed is an American television writer known for her work on ''Little Fires Everywhere'' and ''Scandal''. She is the writer and showrunner of the upcoming

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legal drama '' Reasonable Doubt.''

Biography

Mohamed was born and raised in

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. She graduated from

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in 2003. Originally an economics major, she ended up receiving her B.A. in film and English from Columbia. After a stint working for an

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theater in

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, she went on to receive an MFA from USC School of Cinematic Arts. She started her industry career at Shondaland. She was first a production assistant on '' Grey’s Anatomy'' and went on to work as a medical researcher on '' Off the Map'' before becoming a researcher on '' Scandal'' during season 1. After Mohamed was accepted into the Disney, ABC Writing Program, she returned to ''Scandal'' and joined the writing staff for season 2 and rose through the ranks to become supervising producer. In 2018, she inked an overall deal with ABC Studios. She was a writer for ''Little Fires Everywhere'', for which she received an

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nomination. She was also a writer for ''

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'' and developed a pilot for

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with

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about black teenagers in the L.A. neighborhood of Windsor Hills. Most recently, Mohamed is writing and executive producing the

series ''Reasonable Doubt'' with

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and

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. She also reupped an overall deal with ABC Signature more recently.

Awards and nominations

Mohamed was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series in 2020 for her work on ''Little Fires Everywhere''. She was also nominated for two

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and a Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Long Form – Adapted for her work on the limited series.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mohamed, Raamla Living people American women television producers American women television writers American television writers Screenwriters from California Columbia College (New York) alumni USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women