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United States

United States

Washington Dc

Mentoring a cohort of investigative reporters from Europe and Asia for their reporting projects on the exploitation of Asian victims of human trafficking and forced labor in Europe.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Produced documentary films several media outlets: BBC, The York Times, VPRO TV, Channel 4, Johnny Harris Channel, Sky Sport, RTS Sport, NHK Japan, and others.

Champaign, Illinois, United States

Responsibilities include reporting, data analysis, data visualization, and graphic design. Published a dozen weekly graphics with the analysis of agriculture-related data. Assisted in developing a database to track COVID-19’s impact on meatpacking workers and industry in the United States. Contributed to the news reporting on agri-business issues. Analyzed numerous datasets, both publicly available and obtained under FOIA requests. Extensively used R and Excel for data analysis and Illustrator, Tableau, and Datawrapper for data visualization, to name a few.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Job responsibility includes data scraping, mining, analyzing, visualizing, database management, and producing data-driven investigative news reports on the issues on public interest, locally and nationally. Contribute reporting to CU-CitizenAccess, a community news project devoted to investigative and enterprise reporting in Illinois, USA.

Kathmandu, Nepal

Assigning reporters for investigative new reports, editing the contents primarily on the issues of corruption, irregularities, and local governance system. Working closely with the editors of national media outlets as well as the donors (Open Society Foundation, The Asia Foundation, VIKES, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, and Finnish Foundation for Media and Development).

Nepal

· Translated three research reports written on Education and Policy/Provision against Chhaupadi (menstrual taboo) in Nepal. September-October 2017.· Conducted UNDP funded survey on people's expectation from the constituents in aftermath of Second Constituent Assembly of Nepal. 2013.

Job responsibility includes monitoring and observing the political and electoral processes around the House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly Elections, 2017 in Nepal.

Nepal

· Conducted Baseline Survey on earthquake recovery in the hill and mid-hill districts of Nepal. The survey was funded by Sajhedari Bikas Pact Inc. and USAID. May-June 2016.· Conducted Action Research on cost-effective agricultural extension services program in ten mid-hill districts implemented by International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Nepal Government, Department of Agriculture (DOA) and J-Pal. March-April 2015· Conducted Baseline Survey of Fish Sub-sector, Seed Intervention program implemented by Adam Smith International (Samarth-Nepal). October 2014.

Nepal

Contributed to the development of the research methodology and independently carried out research interviews and discussions. · Undertook USAID funded Conflict Assessment in Earthquake Affected Districts of Nepal. November-December 2016.· Undertook USAID funded Conflict Assessment in Selected Mid-West and Far-West Districts of Nepal. November 2015- February 2016

Nepal

· Conducted surveys on the availability of food in earthquake-affected districts of Nepal. May 2015

Nepal

Job responsibility includes publishing multimedia news stories for digital platforms, producing radio programs, and producing long-form investigative reports.

Nepal

Primary job responsibility was to produce radio report, conduct interviews, anchor news bulletins, and host radio programs.

Chitwan, Nepal

Job responsibility includes reporting, producing audio reports, anchoring news bulletins, and conducting interviews.

Nepal

Duty and responsibility include reporting, producing audio stories on local development related issues, and anchoring news bulletins.

Master Of Science - Ms, Applied Anthropology

Courses: Migrants and Refugees, Globalization and Gender, Medical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropological Thought and Praxis.

Master Of Science - Ms, Journalism

Coursework in data scraping, analysis, mapping and visualization plus multimedia design, editing, and investigative reporting. Used SQL.

Reporting Institute Participant

The Dart Center at the university held a reporting institute for international journalists on early childhood experience and developing.

Master Of Arts - Ma, English Language And Literature, General

Coursework in creative and academic writing, cultural studies, literary criticism, advanced communication, and history of American.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Mass Communication And Journalism