Nusrat is passionate about justice and story telling. Her love for writing led her to a degree in mass communication from the University of Kashmir.

Nusrat joined The Press Institute after successfully completing the Voices of Our Future, a joint program of WorldPulse, The Press Institute, The Empowerment Institute  and The Op-Ed Project. She was recently awarded the Sanjay Ghose Media Fellowship: 2008-2009 for women journalists in Jammu and Kashmir. 

"I am interested in covering issues that have gone unreported," she says. "And I want to travel a lot and write about what I see."