The most sobering moment of this entire process was when Abbas Rattani looked at me, crouching behind a camera, and told me “you’re a Mipster too, you know.”

As a student at the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University, I’ve covered dozens of topics: events, crime, religion, you name it. But there was something about Mipsterz that made me want to learn more – it’s why I drove 10 hours in a day to attend a Mipster meet up, why I commuted to Manhattan from Long Island constantly. I became immersed in the story, more so than any before. As a young Muslim myself, the Mipsterz made me think.

ABOUT THE REPORTER – TEENA NAWABI

“Meet the Mipsterz” is my senior capstone project at Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism, which I am graduating in the Spring of 2014. I’ve interned at various places, such as NY1 News and Soccer Long Island Magazine. I’ve also worked on Stony Brook News – a school news channel – as a producer, anchor, reporter, and weather person. Somewhere down the line, I hope to be a foreign correspondent, and report from the streets of Kabul like my grandfather.