Najla Ghazi Amundson has been hired as North Dakota State University's media relations director for the office of vice president for university relations.
Since 2000, Amundson has been a media consultant. She previously worked as a news producer and co-anchor for WDAY-TV in Fargo and as a general assignment editor for WDAZ-TV in Grand Forks, N.D. Additionally, she has worked in public relations and advertising.
Amundson also has been an assistant professor at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, an adjunct faculty member at Concordia College and currently is a graduate teaching assistant at NDSU.
She graduated from South Dakota State University, Brookings, and Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.