Negin Farsad

Why you should listen

Negin Farsad uses humor to challenge stereotypes. A regular on NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me and host of the Fake the Nation podcast, she is the author of the Thurber Prize-nominated How to Make White People Laugh. She has appeared on HBO’s High Maintenance, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk and Hulu’s Not Okay and starred in HBO Max’s Birdgirl. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian and Oprah Magazine. She is a 2013 TED Fellow.