Greetings! I am an educator, journalist and artist with a focus on place, borders and the natural world. I have produced content for newspapers, radio and magazines from Ahmedabad, India to Los Angeles, California including AJ+, KQED, Die Zeit Online and The New York Times.

With a passion for experimental innovative projects, I like to mess around with new forms of technology and media. I’ve been an Oculus Launch Pad grant recipient and member of YouTube’s VR Creators Lab in Los Angeles. I have also presented at the Online News Association, SXSW and BinderCon.

As an educator, I’ve has developed curriculum training journalists in video and immersive storytelling skills in the U.S., India and around the world. As a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, San Francisco State University and Berkeley’s Advanced Media Institute, I have taught multimedia and VR workshops. My teaching and reporting have brought me to Hamburg, Germany as a Fulbright Fellow and Berlin as an Arthur F. Burns Fellow with Die Zeit Online.

I am currently a digital producer/reporter with KQED doing multimedia reporting.

I am a graduate of Pitzer College and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Updated January 2024

If you want to talk about collaborative projects please contact me. I always enjoy teaching classes, speaking to young people, delving into research and consulting on innovative multimedia and immersive media projects. — Lakshmi