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I am a journalist, and founder and managing editor of queerbeat--a new collaborative journalism venture focused on accurately covering LGBTQIA+ communities in India. In my thirteen years of journalism career so far, I have primarily reported about science, inequity and LGBTQIA+ communities from India, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Germany and the United States for publications such as Nature, Scientific American, the Guardian and FiftyTwo. I have been awarded reporting grants by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Alfred Friendly Press Partners, GroundTruth Project, and Medicines Sans Frontiers, among others. My stories have received awards including One World Media Award in 2023, AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in 2022, South Asian Journalists Association Award in 2022, and World Health Assembly Award in 2016. I am also a senior producer with CNN's As Equals vertical editing a series on non-binary people in the global south, and a senior editor with Asian Scientist Magazine. I have a master’s degree in Science Journalism from Columbia University in New York. I was also a fellow at the Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program at The City University of New York in 2021. I strongly believe that journalism can help build an inclusive public discourse. I live in New Delhi with my Dog, Terry.

Listed skills include Journalism, News Writing, Copy Editing, Photography, and 13 others.