Best known for her Oscar-winning documentary shorts Saving Face (2012) and A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (2015), Obaid-Chinoy has spent much of her career in documentaries, so it should be interesting to see how she helms episodes of a fictional TV show like Ms. Marvel.
As for Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, she is a documentarian, journalist, and filmmaker who has won not only two Academy Awards, but also multiple Emmys for her work over the years.