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Rummana Hussain
Rummana Hussain joined the editorial board in 2021 and is a popular columnist who writes on a variety of social and cultural topics. Hussain has held several jobs at the Sun-Times, including assistant metro editor, criminal courts reporter, general assignment reporter and assistant to columnist Michael Sneed.
Before joining the Sun-Times, Hussain covered education and criminal courts in Lake County for the Chicago Tribune and covered crime, education and City Hall for the now-defunct City News Bureau. A Chicago native, Hussain was named a Jefferson journalism fellow by the East-West Center in 2006. She has served on the board of the Chicago Headline Club and the local chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. She has a masters degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree from Loyola University. She lives in Rogers Park.