I'm a data journalist interested in reporting on healthcare, higher education and the South Asian diaspora. Currently, I write for Mission Local, a nonprofit local newsroom in San Francisco. I was a molecular biologist in a past career and a poet in a past life.
This auto-updating dashboard tracks police enforcement around the 16th Street BART plaza in San Francisco - an area infamous for open-air drug markets and illegal activity. It is an area that Mission Local has extensively covered, especially after Mayor Daniel Lurie promised to crackdown on it. This is our latest accountability project.
Data from the NYC Department of Records shows the gender disparity in our urban landscape with only 22% of honorarily named streets honoring women.
South Asian storeowners and chefs across San Francisco are finding ways to adapt as import prices surge ahead of festival season.
A data-driven analysis of contemporary hip-hop's most iconic rivalry, examining over 500 insults in the feudal discography.
Only 9.5 percent of the Bay Area's undocumented immigrants live in San Francisco. Many more live in Santa Clara and Alameda counties.
Transgender immigrants can now access discounted legal support and additional stipends to help mitigate legal fees.
City inspectors find unsanitary cafeteria conditions in almost one-third of Harlem public school buildings. Schools aren't required to tell parents.
This quarterly series aims to help people understand the human impact of scientific research.
Deplatforming, or censorship by internal or external sources of the accessibility to public events on campus, is alarmingly on the rise.
After a reservation resale platform was shut down by New York’s “Restaurant Reservation Anti-Piracy Act,” its founder plans a comeback with a chatbot.
As slower responses lead to increased cardiac deaths, advocates urge wider distribution of life-saving devices and educational campaigns to encourage their use.
Visualizing the mass censorship of books in American schools.
Analysing the disability related complaints lodged against U.S commercial airlines, over the past five years.
What do the youth of India feel about the need for formal sexual education in classrooms? I analyse the results of a survey I conducted in collaboration with Untaboo, an Indian non-profit, during the 'Bois Lockerroom' harrassment scandal in Delhi schools.
The land use committee advocates for an innovative project to inform developers of community needs.
The subtleties of writing respectfully about non-white cuisines
I'm a Data Intern at Mission Local, San Francisco. I graduated from the M.S Data Journalism program at Columbia Journalism School in August 2025. I enjoy untangling stories hidden in data and learning new ways to visually represent complicated narratives. Previously I’ve written for The Berkeley Scientific Journal, The Daily Californian and Indian news outlets such as DNA, Mint and Times of India.
Before journalism, I graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Molecular & Cellular Biology (Genetics) and Data Science. Over the course of 6 years, I’ve researched mating processes in yeast, virulence in Listeria and built computational pipelines to analyze single-cell genomics data.
Me After 5pm: At great peril to my bank account, I’m an extreme foodie. My life would fall apart without my to-do list and I’m infamous for my ridiculously rigorous iced coffee making process.