Aaisha Dadi Patel first joined Salzburg Global's Public Affairs Team in April 2021 as an impact reporter, and as of March 2022 is one of Salzburg Global's inaugural Impact Fellows in Communications. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, Aaisha covers Salzburg Global programs and writes features for publication in print and online, with a particular focus on Salzburg Global Fellows and their work. She has been a news assistant at the Wall Street Journal's Africa bureau since 2019, covering macroeconomic indicators and other news from the continent. She also lectures part-time media studies students at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, the same institution from which she holds an M.A. in the subject.