A journalist from Iowa, Tahera Rahman had worked for WHBF, a television station in Illinois and Iowa for two years as a producer before applying to be on-air.
On Feb. 8, 2018, Tahera Rahman gave her first on-air broadcast as a journalist for WHBF.
It is also the day she made history, becoming the first full-time broadcast TV reporter in America to wear a hijab, also know as a head scarf on the air.