Fareed Mostoufi

Fareed Mostoufi is part of the education team at Pulitzer Center, where he focuses on designing classroom resources and educational experiences that share methods of connecting global news with students and educators. He is also a teaching artist at Arena Stage, where he spent several years managing youth and community programs as part of the Community Engagement department. While at Arena,  Fareed devised and directed original, autobiographical plays with communities in Washington D.C., Peru, India and Croatia that explored violence, health and identity. Before that, Fareed taught ESL and Spanish in D.C. Public Schools. As a recipient of a 2009 Fulbright Scholarship to Argentina, he also taught culture, literature and playwriting at a teachers’ college in San Miguel de Tucuman. In collaboration with the Ministry of Education there, he created the workshop Drama Techniques for English Language Learners, which was presented to more than 400 teachers in the Tucumán province. Fareed received his BFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University in 2008 and his MA in Teaching from American University in 2012. He is passionate about social justice and is a firm believer in the power of storytelling to cultivate empathy.