Rabia Chaudry

Rabia Chaudry is an attorney and the author of Adnan’s Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial (St. Martin Press, September 2016), a book about the criminal case of her friend Adnan Syed, also featured in the podcast Serial. Chaudry was the first person to take the Syed's case to Serial producer and host Sarah Koenig. Molly Fitzgerald writes in Bustle that the book "picks up where ‘Serial’ left off," describing evidence not included in the Serial podcast including letters he wrote to his family early in his imprisonment. Adnan's Story became a New York Times best-seller and one of Audible's 10 most popular audio books of 2016. Chaudry also has a podcast, Undisclosed with Susan Simpson and Colin Miller, that looks at evidence in Syed's case and others.

Chaudry attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the George Mason University School of Law. She has been a fellow at the US Institute of Peace and at the New American Foundation. She is founder and president of the Safe Nation Collaborative, a project that offers education on Islamic faith, dialogue between law enforcement and Muslim communities, and countering violent extremism.