Zahra Ahmad, 24, is an award-winning city reporter at The Flint Journal-MLive. She has reported extensively on the lead pipe replacement project and other issues connected to the Flint water crisis. In February, she traveled back to Iraq to reunite with her extended family for the first time since her family immigrated to the United States in 1998 when Saddam Hussein issued a warrant for her father’s arrest. Follow her on Instagram at zeee_m.a to see her journey unfold or ask her questions on Twitter using the handle @AhmadZahra1m.