Fellows & Editors
Sarika Bansal
- Trip:
- Fellows 2014
- Affiliation:
- Freelance / Solutions Journalism Network
- Country:
- Brazil
- Year:
- 2014
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Sarika Bansal is an independent journalist who specializes in social innovation and global health. Her writing and photographs have appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, The Guardian, Fast Company, The Atlantic, and several other publications. She is also the director of partnerships of the Solutions Journalism Network, which supports rigorous and compelling reporting about responses to social problems. Sarika has previously worked in management consulting with McKinsey & Company and in microfinance business development in India.
She holds an undergraduate degree in Disease and Public Policy from Harvard College and a Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community.
Bansal was awarded a prior fellowship with IRP, reporting from Tanzania in 2013.
Stories
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Strung Out in Tanzania
This AJ+ short documentary follows Stamil Hamadi, an addict and sex worker who has cycled in and out of treatment since 2012. She hopes to kick the habit for good, but every day...
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A Night In São Paulo’s Crackland
Priscila Carolino was nearly due with her fifth child when she sauntered into the public hospital for her weekly checkup. Fidgety and talkative, she quickly made her presence known in the waiting...
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Controversial São Paulo Project Offers Jobs to Crack Addicts in Cracolândia
{image-1} The Fluxo, where most crack is traded in Cracolândia, is confined to a square the size of a city block. Photo: Almudena Toral On a mild winter morning in...
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In Tanzania, Farmers Reap the Benefits of Radio
How do you share ideas – including potentially transformative ones – with people who do not have Internet access, are largely illiterate, and live far from paved roads? Even in today&rsquo...;
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