Mehr Sher

Mehr Sher is an investigative journalist reporting on democracy in North Carolina for the Carolina Public Press and independently reports on international stories focused on South Asia. She was a 2022 Post-Graduate Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting fellow. Through the Pulitzer Center fellowship she reported on Afghans who were targeted by the Taliban. Sher's beats include democracy, migration, environment and conflict and her coverage is focused on issues in the U.S., Pakistan and Afghanistan. Sher is from Raleigh, North Carolina and is an ethnic Pashtun with roots in northwestern Pakistan. 

In 2023, she completed her term as a Report for America corps member. Through RFA, Sher covered the environment on the investigative team for the Bangor Daily News across Maine. Sher has always been passionate about covering underreported stories and marginalized communities. In 2022, she graduated from Columbia Journalism School with honors for her master's degree in investigative journalism. During her master's program, she reported extensively on the Afghan refugee resettlement program and investigated hate crime legislation in Indiana. 

Sher graduated from North Carolina State University in 2015 and began her journalism career abroad in Pakistan, where she was based for over six years. In Pakistan, she investigated systemic failure, an inadequate health care system and a cover up, which led to the exacerbation of an HIV/AIDs outbreak in over 1,000 children in Sindh, Pakistan.