Project Officer and Co-Coach

Hager Hesham is the project manager of ARIJ AI Porject with the Google News Initiative. She is also a trainer/ coach assistant and a data investigative journalist. Hager holds a bachelor’s degree from the Communication College at Cairo University. She receieved trainings at different media orgainzations focusing on digital and TV journalism. Hager was an ARIJ-NED fellow in 2022. Her reports won a number of awards. Her investigation with ARIJ about women and sports centers in Egypt was nominated for the New Media Writing Prize Journalism Award in 2021.