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Author Archives: Meera Kymal
Meera Kymal is the Contributing Editor at India Currents and Founder/Producer at DesiCollective.
At India Currents, she covers immigration policy and reform, civil rights, the pandemic, and climate change, and how racial disparities and health inequities disproportionately affect minority communities in a world that is more diverse but less equal.
At DesiCollective she covers issues that impact minority communities in the South Asian diaspora through the lens of social justice, politics, and the arts.
Meera is 2021 and 2022 grantee from the USC Center for Health Journalism, reporting on domestic violence in the South Asian community. She has received Journalistic Excellence awards from the San Francisco Press Club (2021 & 2020,) and from CNPA (2021).
At India Currents she has won grant funding from the Facebook Journalism Project, United Way Bay Area, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Network for Good, and Ethnic Media Services.
Meera holds a BA from Madras University, a Fellowship from Mount Holyoke College(MA), and an MA in Communication from Ohio University.
