Nikita Sampath
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Nikita Sampath is a visual journalist who graduated from Boston University. She grew up in the South of India and got a Master's in English Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. She writes a little and likes experimenting with new digital storytelling platforms.
Nikita is interested in reporting on issues of social justice, climate change, gender and public health.
Her work has been recognized by the Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture at Beijing Normal University, Boston University's College of Communication and the Boston Press Photographers Association.
![Media file: floating_hospital_posterframe.jpg](/sites/default/files/02-21-17/floating_hospital_posterframe.jpg "A screenshot from the video "Aboard the Floating Hospital". Image by Nikita Sampath. Bangladesh, 2016.")
![Saline Drinking Water Khulna](/sites/default/files/09-23-16/12.jpg "Kukumoni Munda, a resident of Koyra number 6, a coastal hamlet bordering the Sundarbans in southwestern Bangladesh, walks more than half a mile each day to fetch saline drinking water from a pond. "Fresh water costs 10 taka a day. I cannot afford it," she says. Image by Nikita Sampath. Bangladesh, 2016.")
