Neha Wadekar

Neha is an independent international multimedia journalist. She reports at the intersections of climate, gender, conflict and crisis, human rights, and emerging democracies.

Neha’s written and video work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, PBS NewsHour, National Geographic, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, CNN, and others.

She has received fellowships from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, the United Nations Foundation, the Fuller Project, the Overseas Press Club, the International Women’s Media Foundation, the Groundtruth Project, and Journalists for Transparency.

Neha is originally from Boston, MA. She attended Tufts University and received a masters in journalism from the University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Journalism.