Aliya works as the digital editor for the Bronx Times, a weekly newspaper and daily website that covers New York City's northernmost borough.

At the Bronx Times, Aliya frequently reports on transit, development and local politics. She can be found doing a little bit of everything, from assisting the editor in chief to showing coworkers photos of her cat. Her work also appears in sister publication AM New York Metro.

Aliya graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University in 2020. At Barnard, she took as many Columbia Journalism School graduate-level courses as the registrar would let her, and then some.

Aliya has worked at the Register-Star, a daily newspaper in Hudson, New York and the Westmore News, a weekly newspaper in Port Chester, New York. She also worked as a freelance reporter and photojournalist in Vermont, where she was published in Vermont Public Radio, the Mountain Times and the Rutland Herald. She also had work published in WNYC's Gothamist and VTDigger.

Journalism Awards:
*New York Press Association 2021 Better Newspaper Contest: Coverage of Education Second Place Division 1, Spot News Coverage Second Place Division 1, News Story Second Place Division 2, Feature Story Honorable Mention Division 3
*2022 Selection for the Mike Levine Journalism Education Fund Fellowship