Kasim Kashgar
Journalist and institution-builder working at the intersection of state power, diaspora, and press freedom.For six years at Voice of America — as its first dedicated English and Mandarin reporter covering Uyghur issues — he published more than 300 stories on Chinese government policy, detention, and displacement affecting Uyghur communities across China and the diaspora. He also created VOA's first Uyghur-language digital video program, the first time in the agency's eight-decade history that it spoke directly to global Uyghur audiences in their own language.He is the founding executive director of Uyghur Monitor, an independent trilingual newsroom publishing rigorous, fact-based reporting in English, Uyghur, and Mandarin on one of the most consequential and underreported stories of our era.In 2026–27, he is a Fellow at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, where he is completing his memoir.This site documents that work.
