Priyanka Borpujari is an award-winning independent journalist, teacher, and researcher. A journalist since 2006, she has reported on issues of human rights and justice, from across Japan, Ireland, Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Indonesia, El Salvador, and India. Her work has appeared in the British Medical Journal, Columbia Journalism Review, The Guardian, National Geographic, BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Diplomat, Caravan, TRT World, and several other publications.
Borpujari was previously a business journalist in the Indian capital of New Delhi, and a crime reporter with Mumbai Mirror where she also covered the 26/11 terror attacks.
She was named the 2012-2013 IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow to recognise her journalism covering issues of forceful acquisition of land owned by indigenous peoples. In 2015, Borpujari was one of the Robert Bosch Stiftung India-Germany Media Ambassadors and a guest journalist with the German political weekly Die Zeit. In early 2016, she was a Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY, USA, where she taught a course on media and human rights. Previously, she has also taught a course on community media at Mumbai’s Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).
She has also conducted writing-for-healing workshops in varied spaces: from an informal settlement in Cape Town (South Africa) to a men’s prison in Rochester, NY (USA). Apart from being invited regularly to speak at various fora about her journalism, Borpujari has been granted several reporting fellowships.
Between 2018 and 2019, she has walked 1,200 kms across north and northeast India with two-time Pulitzer-winning journalist Paul Salopek, on his 33,000-km Out of Eden Walk, that traces the path of human migration.
Borpujari writes a monthly column in Die Tageszeitung. She is also currently a PhD candidate at Dublin City University; her research is in the intersection of gender, ageing and social media. She is based between Dublin (Ireland) and Bombay (India). She is fluent in four languages, and has survival skills with three other.
She enjoys 90s house music, dancing, and dabbling in water colours.
You may connect with her at priyanka.borpujari@gmail.com or on Twitter/X or LinkedIn.