Shelina Janmohamed is an author, cultural commentator and broadcaster who works across the advertising industry, news media, podcasting, books and the wider creative economy. She is one of the most distinctive voices exploring identity, power and care in today’s culture.

Her debut podcast was The Shelina Show, a Global Original podcast and a rare female Muslim voice in the news and current affairs space. Commissioned as part of Global’s push for greater diversity, The Shelina Show was the first weekly news podcast on a major platform hosted by a Muslim woman—bringing sharp, compassionate analysis to politics, society and the stories we often overlook. She is now the co-founder and host of the Muslim Women Talk Ramadan podcast, a first of its kind space by Muslim women for Muslim women to talk about the female experiences in Ramadan, which has just completed its second series. 

She has presented programmes on BBC Radio, writes regularly for national publications, and is the author of multiple books including the bestselling memoir Love in a Headscarf and the Carnegie-nominated children's book Story of Now: Let’s Talk About the British Empire. She also talks about the emotional, invisible load carried by sandwich generation carers like herself—caught between parenting, elder care, and holding society together while losing your place in it.

By day, Shelina works in the advertising industry where she champions equity and inclusion across the creative economy and is an award-winning industry leader. At every level of her work—from podcasts to policy tables—she’s asking: Whose stories get told? And what happens when we finally hear them? Whether on mic, in print, or in the boardroom, Shelina’s work connects the personal to the political with humour and insight —inviting audiences to rethink whose stories matter, and what a more caring, creative world could look like.

Expect honesty, depth, plenty of irreverence, and a powerful lens on what it means to be heard, seen, and valued.