Sushmita

Sushmita is an international award-winning journalist, researcher, photographer, and a former engineer. She has worked on issues of climate change, infrastructure, environmental justice, forest governance, health, gender and more. 

She is a former Pulitzer Center grantee, Society of Environmental journalists’ and Uproot Project's 2024 diversity fellow, winner of Covering Climate Now awards 2024 (Justice category) and Red Ink Awards for excellence in Indian Journalism, 2022. 

Sushmita is a guest lecturer at TISS in Mumbai, where she teaches modules on climate change and health for Masters’ students of public and mental health and foundation courses in human rights. She has been frequently invited to deliver talks and lectures on issues of public importance. Her articles have appeared in India’s leading newspapers, podcast platforms, and magazines and she has won multiple awards for journalistic excellence. She has over 15 years of experience across disciplines.