Contributing Writer at Religion Unplugged

• Followed and wrote primarily about Latin American, U.S. and Indian politics, with a focus on under-reported social movements and human rights issues, along with socio-historic and literary pieces • Wrote three to five news briefs daily along with occasional in-depth analysis pieces, often with original interviews, totaling to over 50 analysis pieces• Worked on special coverages, including countries’ elections and state visits • Some of these original reported pieces got republished in other publications, like The Black Agenda Report, MintPress News, Cubasi, among others

• Pitched story ideas based on global news trends to inform audiences about relevant, lesser reported issues by the mainstream media • Collaborated with other social media writers and the coordinator to maximize audience engagement, sent daily Twitter, Facebook and Google Analytics reports for a holistic assessment of the diverse coverages • Made social media plans, memes for important coverages. Published relevant stories on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, curated important news events on Storify• Live-tweeted breaking news events, managed Periscope, Facebook Live for events and special coverage events or exclusive stories by our correspondents • Advocated for and contributed to stories focusing on India and its diaspora to tap into the Indian audiences, with continuous coverage of events in India, the South Asian country became one of the top five countries in terms of the web audience

• Wrote blurbs for their microsite for the annual campaign “Fostering the Future” • Helped edit promo campaign video • Wrote blurbs for social media (Facebook and Twitter) to help raise awareness about the issues faced by foster children • Used Facebook Insights to predict hits for the campaign month• Wrote a donor appeal to set up an internship fund for the former foster youth

Assisted three women community leaders with their respective multimedia and social media queries for their projects, some of their innovative projects were featured on Time magazine's website.

• Wrote culture stories for the website • Created short videos for the web featuring immigrant women about their experiences with cyberbullying

• Compiled weekly news roundup “On Our Radar” for the website• Transcribed interviews, fact-checked, and proofread articles for the web and magazine • Compiled writers’ pitches and presented at the weekly editorial meetings • Wrote FOB blurbs for the Fall 2015 print issue of the magazine • Assisted with Drupal HTML functions during Bitch Media’s website relaunch

• Conducted interviews with known artists and photographers for the website • Wrote blurbs featuring news, artists, and art exhibitions

• Covered social justice and cultural events, on and off campus for the news website.• Worked as a features photographer for local events

The Daily Orange is an award-winning, independent student newspaper published in Syracuse, New York. Covered social justice and cultural events, on and off campus for the news website.

• Pitched the first photo-essay of the magazine • Wrote news stories for web and print• Proofread and copy-edited magazine pieces

• Wrote blurbs about local cultural events for BOB • Transcribed interviews, archived images, proofread long-form pieces.