Shreeya Sinha
Shreeya Sinha is an award-winning journalist and producer at the Foreign desk of The New York Times. She was most recently a producer at the Asia Society, where she shot video interviews with global leaders, produced multimedia packages, and wrote about the rise of Asia.
Shreeya is the winner of Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards (the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes in broadcast news,) has won Pictures of the Year International and was nominated for an Emmy and Webby for ‘Undesired’, a multimedia project about violence against women in India featuring photojournalist Walter Astrada’s work. She spent months reporting, finding women who would speak out, shooting video and field producing the project for Mediastorm and wrote their first investigative story.
Shreeya grew up in India, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and the foothills of the Indian Himalayas. She received her master’s degree with honors from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor’s in Politics and International Relations from Brandeis University.
In India, all women must confront the cultural pressure to bear a son. The consequences of this preference is a disregard for the lives of women and girls. From birth until death they face a constant threat of violence.
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