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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.

In Thailand, an Uphill Battle to Legalize Sex Work

Sex workers and liberal politicians are fighing an uphill battle to legalize sex work in Thailand.

Looking away from Russian corruption led to Ukraine war, says one of Putin’s leading adversaries

Maria Pevchikh, Chief Investigator at the Anti-Corruption Foundation on the fight to expose the people who poisoned their founder Alexei Navalny and challenging some of the most powerful men in Russia.

Women Want to Put Yemen Back Together Again

Men caused the world’s worst humanitarian disaster, but it’s become clear they can’t fix it.

Want To Wipe Out Terror In Somalia? Turn To Women

Because women need to shape policy and legislation to secure protection and advancement of women and girls.

Welcome To Puntland: Where Many Men Don’t Consider Rape A Crime

Every morning, 28-year-old Officer Shamis Abdi Bile rises before dawn to make breakfast for her three young children. She bustles around the house, taking part in a few of the traditional tenets homemaking, something that…

This Is How Trump’s Abortion Policy Will Curb Life-Saving Health Care

"Many are going to die," warned one impoverished 17-year-old Kenyan woman who nearly lost her life to a back-alley abortion.
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