Zakiyyah Woods (b. 1984) is a multimedia journalist and FAA-certified drone pilot from the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. She credits her love of photography and storytelling to the moments spent as a child sifting through old family photo albums stored in her Nana's living room cabinet and flipping through the pages of the newspaper each afternoon after school. 

Zakiyyah received her B.A. in Mass Communications from Benedict College and an M.A. in  Engagement Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. For her practicum, she published a series of audio interviews of mothers with a history of postpartum depression, a mental health condition she, too, survived after the birth of her son in 2007. Zakiyyah also hosted two community panel discussions that provided information and resources on perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) to new and expectant moms and a discussion centered on the experiences of fathers and non-birthing partners with PMADs. 

Zakiyyah is a member of Black Women Photographers, Diversify Photo, The Luupe, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and the New York Association of Black Journalists. In June 2023 she was selected as one of the many talented artists featured at the annual Photoville Festival in Brooklyn, NY. In the same month, Zakiyyah began a ten-week summer internship as the first visual editor intern at WNYC/Gothamist.com.  

Zakiyyah is a winner of the NABJ's Salute to Excellence 2024 award for photojournalism and multiple student and professional awards for her contribution to the Queens Street Name Stories audio history project. Her work has been published in Reuters, Business Insider, Gothamist/WNYC, The Luupe, The New York Times, and NPR. Some of her clients include Volunteers of America NYC and Community Heroes Photoville exhibition. 

Zakiyyah is available for assignments.