Aathira Perinchery is a trained wildlife biologist turned journalist whose writing focuses on ecology, conservation and wildlife research in India. Perinchery’s previous bylines can be found in The Wire, Mongabay-India, The Print and The Hindu, among others. She is also a grantee of the Earth Journalism Network.
Banjot Kaur is a former correspondent at Down To Earth, as well as a correspondent and senior copy editor with Times of India and news producer at Asian News International. Before becoming a Report for the World corps member, she took part in the Thakur Foundation Fellowship in 2020 for an investigative reporting project centered
Kaushal Shroff is a business journalist with over 10 years of experience, including reporting with Financial Express and The Caravan. Obsessed with the markets and mortality, he spends his time reading books on market crashes and depressions, pouring over complex data sets, and uploading obscure poems to his Instagram handle.
Fábio Bispo is an investigative reporter focused on political coverage, public transparency, data journalism and environmental issues. Prior to becoming a Report for the World corps member, Bispo worked in daily journalism in the Brazilian State of Santa Catarina and collaborated as a freelancer for Estadão, Revista Piauí, the Intercept, Congresso em Foco, Folha and
Qosim Suleiman is an education reporter with Premium Times. Prior to becoming a Report for the World corps member,, Suleiman was a 2020 fact-checking fellow with Dubawa, a project of the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism, where he contributed to the curbing of information disorder in society. He was also involved in several reportages,
Chiamaka is a diaspora reporter and opinion writer with Premium Times. Before becoming a Report for the World corps member, Okafor covered issues ranging from health and human rights to politics and gender inclusion. She has also gained technical experience in investigative journalism. She is a Thomson Reuters Foundation alumna and holds a Bachelor of
Vivian Chime is a Nigerian journalist with experience covering climate, global health, and development. Her journalism career started as a student journalist at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where she received a BA in Mass Communication. She has been a graduate trainee with the national newspaper The New Telegraph and a legislative correspondent and on-air
Before joining TheCable, Ayodele Oluwafemi was a reporter with the Cable Newspaper Journalism Foundation (CNJF), under the Policy Radar Initiative (PRIN), supported by the MacArthur Foundation. Ayodele joined CNJF in 2020, covering politics, health and education. He has also worked as a general assignment reporter for Peoples Guide newspaper and as a metro and politics
Aarefa Johari is a journalist from Mumbai, India, with over 11 years of experience covering gender, culture, communities, urban development and more. She began her career as a reporter and features writer with Hindustan Times, a national daily broadsheet. Since 2014, she has been reporting for Scroll.in, a leading digital news publication in India, where
Taiwo Adebulu is a Lagos-based journalist with seven years of experience in investigative and development journalism. He holds a bachelor degree in Language Arts from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, and a master’s degree in Communication Arts Education from the University of Ibadan (UI). In 2014, Taiwo began his journalism career as a freelance reporter