Ritwika Mitra is an independent journalist and alumni of the MSF South Asia Without Borders Media Fellowship – 2022. Her work has appeared in The Fuller Project, Fifty Two, Global Health Now, Missing Perspectives, The Geographical, Open Democracy, The Wire, Article14 and Scroll. She has reported on the climate crisis, gender, caste, poverty, custodial deaths from across India. Previously, she has worked with The Indian Express, Deccan Herald, and The New Indian Express. She is the recipient of the Lorenzo Natali media prize and PII-ICRC award, and multiple grants and fellowships. In 2016, she was awarded the Chevening Scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in International Relations (gender) at University of Birmingham.
