Bio

Aliya Jasmine is an award-winning television host, producer, and environmental journalist (M.A.) You can watch her on the Discovery Channel as co-host of “The Mightiest” which was nominated for Best Science/Nature Documentary Program at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards. She is also the co-founder of Earth Tones Lab, the environmentally-focused media production and climate research lab that aims to amplify diverse and marginalized voices in an effort for equitable representation in the media industry.  Aliya Jasmine currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two dogs where she is actively directing a film about L.A.’s endangered mountain lion population, LionBridge.

She was previously anchor of MTV News in Canada, for over a decade, where she interviewed celebs including Tom Cruise, Kanye West, and Adele. Among the many shows she helped develop at MTV Canada, MTV IMPACT was a show for millennials about social and environmental issues that sent her on assignment around the world, and set the path for her career: from South Sudan after a civil war, to the heart of British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest to see first-hand the potential impacts of a proposed oil pipeline. She returned to the rainforest multiple times for various productions, and became of the World Wildlife Fund’s “Canadians for the Great Bear.” As a field reporter for Discovery Channel she was on the ground in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Her many assignments for NBC in Los Angeles include a short documentary for NBC’s digital and social platforms about a wildlife corridor (slated to be the biggest in the world) to save the regions almost extinct mountain lion population, and reporting on California’s wildfires, which recently earned her a nomination form the LA Press Club.

“AJ” is bilingual in French & English. She holds a Bachelor of Communications degree from the University of Ottawa, a Social Media & Digital Marketing Certification from Harvard University, and a Master’s Degree in Environmental Journalism from the University of Southern California. In 2019 she joined the Board of Directors for The Nature Conservancy’s Canadian chapter, Nature United.  AJ works to empower others in the industry as an active mentor on Mentorcam where she coaches budding entrepreneurs on PR strategy, branding, pitching, marketing, and fundraising.