their initial funding fell through, Zomorodi and Poyant partnered with Civil, a marketplace that used blockchain technology to distribute news. Civil also planned to sell 100 million digital coins of its own cryptocurrency to raise money to fund themselves and their partners. Civil shut down in 2020. At the end of 2019, Zomorodi and Poyant were attempting to reorganize their partnership with a limited amount of funding remaining. Zomorodi was named the host of the TED Radio Hour in November 2019, and Poyant was planning on taking side projects on contract, but with COVID-19 shutting down advertising funding in early 2020, Stable Genius Productions did not have the financial runway to continue producing the podcast as a partnership. Zomorodi will continue to hold onto Stable Genius Productions, LLC and is planning on releasing more content to the ZigZag Podcast. Awards and recognition Zomorodi has won numerous journalism awards including the New York Press Club Award for Journalism. She was also named Outstanding Host in 2014 by the Alliance of Women in Media. In 2018, she was listed as one of the "100 Most Creative People in Business" by Fast Company. Other work Zomorodi is the author of the books Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self and Camera Ready: How to Present Your Best Self and Ideas On Air and Online. She also hosted the fourth and fifth seasons of the IRL Podcast from Mozilla Firefox. References Living people American podcasters American women journalists Journalists from New Jersey American women writers American writers of Iranian descent Georgetown College (Georgetown University) alumni People from Princeton, New Jersey Year of birth missing (living people) American women podcasters 21st-century American women