Prior to joining Culture Shock on the Oprah Winfrey Network, Rawan was a multimedia producer and correspondent on the PBS weekly newsmagazine, Need to Know. Rawan reported on numerous topics ranging from a deadly coal mine blast in West Virginia, toxic Chinese Drywall contaminating homes across the country, the struggles of being a mayor in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the growing student debt crisis in the United States. Rawan also regularly produces editorial essays, interviews and contributes to the show’s website.
Prior to joining Need to Know, Rawan field produced a historical documentary, Fun City Revisited: The Lindsay Years, for WNET, which was awarded a New York Emmy. She also worked on the PBS documentary series, Wide Angle, for three seasons, where she helped produce more than ten international films, two of which were nominated for Emmys.
Rawan is a graduate of Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences and the New York University Graduate School of Journalism. She’s fluent in Arabic and has lived and traveled extensively in the Middle East.
