a journalist at heart, and storyteller by instinct.
In 8 years as a reporter in India and the U.S., I've honed in on meaningful narratives and embraced community immersion to tell compelling stories.
Now, I’m a freelance writer, strategist and audio producer helping journalists, nonprofits and media organizations tell impactful stories and build narrative strategy.Here’s what I offer.
Currently, I’m one of ten Solutions Journalism Network Youth Building & Belonging Fellows in the U.S., exploring the role of restorative practices in conflict resolution and self-esteem building among Black girls and young adults in Louisville, Kentucky. I’m the creator and host of Minor Feelings, an interview podcast exploring identity, assimilation and belonging. I’m also part of the Kentuckiana Asian American Arts Project, where I collaborate on narrative strategy, oral history work, community outreach, and news updates.
My reporting has appeared in The Intercept, The New Republic, NPR, The Guardian, VICE News and CNN. I’ve covered housing, politics, caste inequality, gender-based violence, LGBTQ+ issues, labor and criminal justice. You can see more of my work here.
I’ve won multiple regional and national honors from the Society of Professional Journalists, Public Media Journalists Association and the RTDNA Edward Murrow Awards. I served as a board member for the South Asian Journalists Association from 2023 to 2025.
Most recently, I helped build and report for the race and equity beat at Louisville Public Media, an NPR member station, where I also covered state politics and community-driven accountability stories.
My work has always focused on how people make meaning of the world around them, particularly in the context of policy, power, and everyday life. I translate complex stories, case studies and ideas for wider audiences without sacrificing nuance.
I collaborate on stories with emotional nuance and complexity, and I enjoy making complicated subjects interesting through context, deep listening, and historical grounding. I find unconventional sources and experts and take a lot of care with people and how their narratives are represented, keeping to facts without tripping down the manholes of human biases. I explore contradictions that help us understand the world and ourselves better.
