Rummana Hussain is a general assignment reporter, editor and occasional
columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times, where she recently served as an
editorial board member, writing on a variety of national and international
subjects, including immigration and Pakistan's tumultuous political
landscape.

She started at the Sun-Times in 2001 as assistant to news and entertainment
columnist Michael "Mike" Sneed.

Previously, she covered education and criminal courts for the Chicago
Tribune and crime, education and City Hall for the now defunct City News
Bureau of Chicago.

Rummana was recently honored by local journalism groups for her work on
breaking stories with her Sun-Times colleagues.

She was also chosen as a Jefferson fellowship at Honolulu's East West Center
in 2006. During that fellowship, Rummana traveled to India and Pakistan to
study the rising economy in South Asia with several American and foreign
journalists.

Rummana received a B.A. in Communications from Loyola University in Chicago
in 1993. She also has an M.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University.

She is a member of Chicago's South Asian Journalists Association and serves
as the co-president of the Chicago chapter of Asian-American Journalists
Association.