Neema Roshania Patel was born on September 28th in 1987 and unfortunately died on 24th October 2022 due to gastric cancer
Neema Roshania Patel was 35 years old Director of the Washington Post Next Generation Audience Development for them. She began working in year 2016 but her service ended in 2022 because Washington Post editor Neema died on October 24th at the age of 35 years following a fight with gastric cancer as per her husband.
Washington Post Journalist Neema Roshania Patel Passed Away Due To Gastric Cancer, Cause Of Death, Obituary, Biography, Age, Family, Husband, Education, Career, News
We are mourning the loss of our #GwenIfill Mentor and friend, Neema Roshania Patel.
Her commitment to diversifying news will have a long-lasting influence on the industry. We send our deepest condolences to her loved ones. https://t.co/duhSGHwluk pic.twitter.com/y75m9NlMUf
— International Women's Media Foundation (@IWMF) October 25, 2022
It has been tremendously hard to even consider the loss of Neema Roshania Patel. She was the founding editor of the Next Gen team. I can't imagine doing this work without her, but I also know how passionate she was about building the future and mentoring https://t.co/FHILKXx1XL
— Phoebe Connelly (@phoebedoris) October 27, 2022
Neema Roshania Patel’s Family And Education
Roshania Patel was born to her Indian immigrant parents Mira Roshania and Prabhu Roshania in Maplewood Township in New Jersey. She grew up with her sister Reshma Roshania and both sisters finished their bachelor’s degree at the University of Rutgers.
Reshma Roshania works as a Research Consultant at Care India while her father Prabhu Roshania was a Quality Assurance Manager at Metallix. In a similar company her mother Mira served in the Accounting Team.
Since childhood Neema Roshania loved reading. Neema Roshania Patel got her first work at the age of 14 years at her town’s children’s library which she loved since she got to share her love of reading with young children and also assist others in discovering the information that they were searching for.
Neema Roshania Professional Career
Neema Roshania While serving as Deputy Editor helped out with the growth of The Lily into a website concentrating on original and curated content for and about women. Patel also worked for their social media outlets such as Instagram and Twitter and after working three years as the Deputy Editor in February the year 2020 Ms. Roshania Patel promoted to the Editor of “The Lily.”
In November of 2021 Neema left her position as Editor at the “Lily” and joined as an Editor in “Next Generation Audience Development and in that position Neema worked only for one year.
Neema Roshania was introduced to journalism when she joined her high school paper. This was something she truly liked about journalism and it attracted her to the industry. In year 2006 she joined the Daily Targum where she worked for 2 years as Correspondent but to get deep information of Journalism Neema did her degree in Bachelor of Arts Economics.