8 Selected Journalists for Camp

8 Selected Journalists for Camp

  • Zakir Hossain Chowdhury
    Zakir Hossain Chowdhury
    Bangladesh

    Zakir has established himself as a freelance photo-journalist who contributes for reputed media namely The Guardian, Telegraph, Daily Mail, and Wall Street Journal among others. He has produced video stories on climate change, child labor and Rohingya issues. Receiving awards like photographer of the year in The Guardian, Best Photograph of the year in CNN on Rohingya refugee issue, Zakir has bagged reputed international titles.

  • Sohara Mehroze Shachi
    Sohara Mehroze Shachi
    Bangladesh

    As a freelance journalist, Sohara’s work revolves around generating themes and ideas of feature stories on issues of environment and climate change. Recipient of the Asian Young Environmental Journalist of the Year, Singapore Environment Council, 2016, her stories have appeared in prestigious outlets like Al Jazeera, the third pole, the daily star among others.

  • Saugat Bolakhe
    Saugat Bolakhe
    Nepal

    Mr. Bolakhe is an independent science writer with growing regional and international repute. He has published scientific stories in leading media outlets like Scientific American, Climate Tracker, Footprint Magazine among others. He also received a grant award for attending science writer’s annual conference and science journalism forum in 2020 and 2021.

  • Raihana Maqbool
    Raihana Maqbool
    India

    As an independent journalist, Raihana has written climate stories linking with women and gender for Women Media Centre including stories on women and COVID-19 for The Fuller Project over the past six years. She has also bagged fellowships for Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program, Stanford University, 2021 and World Conference Of Science Journalists, Fellow, 2019, Lausanne.

  • Marissa-Taylor
    Marissa Taylor
    Nepal

    Marissa Taylor is assistant editor at The Record Nepal, a digital news publication. She has been working as a journalist for the past nine years in Kathmandu and writes about the environment, with particular focus on climate change, climate injustices and biodiversity conservation. She was part of Road to COP26’s Women Reporters on Climate Change.

  • Arathi Menon
    Arathi Menon
    India

    Arathi Menon has an extensive experience in delivering captivating, insightful and data-driven reports on climate change, conservation and sustainability as a science journalist. She is also an awardee of Earth Journalism Fellow 2021.

  • Balika Maden
    Balika Maden
    Nepal

    Balika Maden is an aspiring young journalist with a varying experience of reporting issues of climate and environment in print and electronic media. As a radio journalist of a public owned media in Nepal, she has been raising pertinent issues of climate and environment science through reporting and news analysis.

  • Govinda Prasad Pokhrel
    Govinda Prasad Pokhrel
    Nepal

    Mr. Pokharel possess more than 5 years of progressive experience working in the field of environment and climate reporting. He has produced various news reports and analysis on glacial lakes, GLOFs, climate induced disasters like drought among others working in one of the leading dailies in Nepal.