Samira Mohyeddin is the host of Unforked, a national radio program that picks apart the food we eat to reveal the culture and politics baked into it. She is a multi-award-winning journalist, documentary maker, and producer at CBC Radio Ones The Current.

Samira has a Master of Arts in modern Middle Eastern history from the University of Toronto. She is a trained Shakespearean actor and graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. She also did genocide studies at the Zoryan Institute and is a graduate of Centennial Colleges post gradute advanced journalism program. 

For more than 16 years, Samira has co-owned and operated a restaurant and market in Toronto's Queen West neighbourhood with her two siblings. Combining her two passions of food and journalism is what keeps her curious, well read, and well fed.