Hi there! I'm an award-winning radio and digital journalist based in New York City.

My work broadly focuses on politics, culture, and the environment but I like to think of myself as a generalist. I’ve spent the last seven years covering the complex region of South Asia, reporting on its exciting youth potential as well as the myriad challenges it faces, including climate change. I have bylines in more than 30 international media outlets, including NPR, The World, Christian Science Monitor, WIRED and BBC.

My work spans a variety of formats: magazine features, digital stories, sound-rich audio postcards, radio two-ways, podcast episodes and Instagram Reels. I love this variety, which helps me flex different writing muscles each week. 

Curiosity guides my reporting, which is why I have also been gravitating toward science storytelling in recent years. Liquid mirror telescopes, river avulsions and lion facial recognition are just some of the very cool topics I’ve learned about during my reporting. My science stories have been featured in publications like Science, Undark, National Geographic, EOS and New Scientist.

In New York, I will continue to report on stories that matter. I first arrived in NYC in 2016 as a wide-eyed grad student at Columbia Journalism School. I learned the ropes of journalism here, built up the confidence to approach strangers for interviews, and got my first newsroom experience during internships at WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show and Science Friday. Now, nine years later, I’m looking forward to hitting those familiar streets again, in search of a good story, as always. 

If you are an editor or producer interested in commissioning me, please get in touch at sushmitza@gmail.com