Brown Women Experts
Badass South Asian women are everywhere. Here’s a list. 💪🏿💪🏾💪🏽💪🏼
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@monicasarkar.bsky.social
@curiousmaryam.bsky.social
(she/her) reader, writer, editor on pop culture and politics and other things too maryamahmad.com
@deeksha-sharma.bsky.social
✨I'm an experienced India-based travel writer/storyteller, focusing on stories of travel, culture, heritage and sustainability. ✨Open to travel writing opportunities :)
@motherofhaydes.bsky.social
Middle School English teacher. Toddler Mother. 🌈📖 🇮🇳🇺🇸 💭 about academia Two unfinished writing projects. Reading banned books, currently: The Satanic Verses, 1984, and The House on Mango Street In the trenches here.
@maryamshah.bsky.social
digital editor, breaking news baddie, your lil sister’s best friend, bookish fiend - in that order
@soulsutras.bsky.social
Feminist. Podcaster. Author. Speaker.🎙Multi-award-winning MASALA PODCAST 📸 The Guardian, BBC Radio, Cosmo, Sunday Times🎙Building a better world with #podcasting #writing
@soniashah.bsky.social
Homegrown science journalist/author, The Next Great Migration (2020), Pandemic (2016) + more. 2024 Guggenheim fellow. Bylines NYT Mag, New Yorker, The Nation, etc. Writing a new book on human exceptionalism! www.soniashah.com
@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social
Bride of Art. Presenter: Front Row BBC Radio 4, Newswatch BBC1, Art of Persia BBC4, Broadcasting Press Guild Audio Presenter of the Year 2020. Sarf Londoner, spiritual Berliner,ex-Los Angelena https://samiraahmed.blog/
@naomijoseph.com
Arts and culture editor @uk.theconversation.com Words and sounds for The Sunday Times, Monocle, Courier, gal-dem, Stylist and others
@poonamthakur.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at IISER-Thiruvananthapuram, India. Working on the neurobiology of Parkinson's disease using mouse models. https://sites.google.com/view/thakurlab/home
@dr-radha.bsky.social
Dr | Presenter | Author | Wellbeing & Health Expert 🩺 ✍️@theipaper | 📻@bbcr1 @bbc5live @BBCRadio4 | 📺 @Channel4 @bbcone | 📚 @yellowkite | 🤝@actionhappiness
@meeranavlakha.bsky.social
writer, reporter, columbia j school | meeranavlakha@gmail.com
@sonyabarlow.bsky.social
CEO @lmfnetwork , Author Unprepared to Entrepreneur, Travel & Tech, BBC Presenter🎙️Everyday Hustle @bbcasiannetwork 📧 hello@sonyabarlow.co.uk
@nilufar-ahmed.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Psychology and Inclusion @ Bristol Uni. Chartered Psychologist. Accredited Intersectional Psychotherapist. Diversity and Inclusion Trainer. Public Speaker. Sari lover.
@karishmapatel.bsky.social
Journalist | Prev: BBC Newsreader & Middle East Journalist | ‘Cultures of London’ (Bloomsbury 2024) | MPhil (Cambridge Uni) | Rep: Peters Fraser + Dunlop | Views my own.
@neelamb.bsky.social
research associate producer @ lastweektonight.com. formerly NYT disability reporting, texas tribune, and CNN ~ texas ex 🤘
@drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social
ND Scientist & Writer:SWAY, (M)OTHERHOOD, HYSTERICAL/Writing a new book coming early 2026 and spending a lot of time in libraries and archives. FRSA FRGS. V Prof at Loughborough. Fellow at Newnham College-Cambridge, Fulbright (CUNY), Oxford etc.
@sunitathind.bsky.social
Writer,teacher, model,singer,creative writing facilitator.2 poetry books published,dycp grant Arts Council 2 write memoir-my Ovcancer. On prestigious writing mentorship programme New Writing North. Seeking lit representation Doing NCJT Diploma journalism
@aditisangal.bsky.social
@editorsangeeta.bsky.social
Editor of MG, YA & adult fiction | Alum of S&S and Little, Brown | mehtabookeditingnewyork.com
@madesai.bsky.social
PhD student at University of Michigan School of Information. Data and evaluation for language models / language models as cultural technologies. https://meera-desai.com
@meerasub.bsky.social
🌏Journalist. Author. Earthling. 🖋️ Bylines: New Yorker, Nature, VQR, Orion contributing ed. 🍃 FRONTIERS fellow at BC3 📚 Creative Nonfiction prof at Sewanee School of Letters 🌿 www.meerasub.org
@nilanjanaroy.bsky.social
Otter of books Black River: https://tinyurl.com/blackriver-india https://tinyurl.com/blackriver-roy Novelist, FT columnist, professional cat herder
@mitrakalita.bsky.social
Founder and publisher. Epicenter NYC. Co-founder and CEO. URL Media. Have worked everywhere. Among the many queens of Queens.
@anitaanand.bsky.social
I present programs on TV and Radio, write history books and present a podcast called Empire with William Dalrymple.
@tarajohn.bsky.social
Senior reporter at CNN covering international news and politics. When not doing that, I can be found in a park with my dog.
@pallabimunsi.bsky.social
Investigative Reporter and Producer, CNN. Previously: Asia Reporter, CNN As Equals. DEL-CCU girl at heart; in London. Email: pallabi.munsi@cnn.com DM for Signal.
@manisha.bsky.social
investigations correspondent & visual forensics lead, The Guardian. Emmys judge. friend to all cats / www.manishaganguly.com
@zamirarahim.bsky.social
Journalist, CNN London. Previously writing at The Independent, The Economist and TIME Magazine. Email: zamira.rahim@gmail.com
@monicasarkar.bsky.social
Senior Editor at CNN International. Aspiring novelist: #LondonWritersAward longlist, #Hachette mentee. Usually prefer animals to people 🙈🧿