I am an award-winning international journalist and the author of Epilepsy and Seizures: Building Care in the Community, published by Hesperian Health Guides in April 2026. Both a community health guidebook and an educational tool, Epilepsy and Seizures makes one of the world’s most common and most stigmatized neurological conditions easier to understand and care for. Through clear language, illustrations, and stories, it moves beyond medical jargon to center and highlight people who live with epilepsy and their experiences. The book explores how community-centered care and health education grounded in social justice, advocacy, and human rights can help close epilepsy’s longstanding “treatment gap,” especially in places with limited hard and soft resources.

I am born and raised in India where I began my newsroom career as a staff news reporter for The Wall Street Journal. I covered crime, business, politics, and culture while pursuing enterprise reporting on human rights and social justice. Over the last 10 years in the United States, I have worked as a health and education journalist for local and national outlets, including HuffPost, PBS NewsHour, the Chicago Sun-Times, Bay Nature, and Slate. I have also written for corporate publications, including Diversity Woman and Korn Ferry’s Briefings.

At WSJ, I was part of a news team whose collaborative, competitive, comprehensive, and courageous coverage on women’s issues was recognized by the Society of the Publishers in Asia and the Asia Society in New York city. My education reporting in the U.S. has been supported by the Teacher Project Fellowship at Columbia Journalism School. A 2022 feature I wrote on women’s mental health was recognized by the San Francisco Press Club as the Best Feature Story in the trade magazines category.

I also teach narrative nonfiction and have led a series of free virtual writing workshops through The Writers Grotto in San Francisco. Bringing together participants from around the world, these sessions grew into a wonderful recurring creative community during the lockdown through the COVID-19 pandemic.