Dr Leon Salter

Dr Leon Salter graduated with a PhD in Communication and Journalism in 2018. Leon has taught widely on the Masters and Bachelor of Communication at Massey and his research interests are in Political Communication, Digital Media, Social Justice Movements and Unionism. Leon began working for CARE on the Experiences with COVID-19 among gig workers project and was awarded the MBIE Science Whitinga Research Fellowship in June 2021 to chart the expansion of the gig economy in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Dr Satveer Kaur-Gill

Dr Satveer Kaur-Gill is a critical health communication scholar with a research focus on the health meanings, experiences, and inequalities faced by marginalized communities. Satveer’s  research primarily examines how culture and structure intersect to tell us about the health fragilities experienced by disenfranchised, marginalized, and minoritized population groups. Broadly, Satveer’s work focuses on precarious migration and health and low-income experiences with heart health.

Dr Asha Rathina Pandi

Dr Asha Rathina Pandi, is presently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Center for Culture-centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) at Massey University. At CARE, her research will focus on the health of Plantation and Migrant workers in Malaysia.

Previously, she held teaching and research positions at the Department of Communications and New Media, Center for Culture-centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), and Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore.  Asha received her PhD (2011) and MA in Sociology (2005) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM), USA. She also holds a MSc (2000) and Bachelor’s degrees in Urban Planning (1996) from University Technology of Malaysia, and a Graduate Certificate in Global Health and Population Studies from UHM (2012).

Dr Terri Te Tau

Dr Terri Te Tau worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at CARE in 2019 based in the Manawatū. She is an artist and writer whose current research explores intersections between historical Māori narratives, science and speculative fiction.

Terri is a member of Mata Aho, a collective of four Māori women who work together on large-scale textile based projects. Their work ‘Kiko Moana’ was exhibited in documenta 14, Germany in 2017 and in ‘Oceania’ at the Royal Academy in London, 2018. Their work ‘Kaokao’ was a finalist in APB Foundation Signature Art Prize in Singapore 2018.

Terri received a PhD in Creative Arts from Massey University in 2016. Her research titled ‘Beyond the Corners of Our Whare’ was an interdisciplinary conceptual Māori response to surveillance in Aotearoa New Zealand.

She is a Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leadership Fellow and recipient of the Sasakawa Doctoral Scholarship.

Samarendra Das

Samarendra Das is a journalist, bilingual author, filmmaker and political activist. He was trained in mathematics and computer science at the universities of Brahmapur and Indore in India. Samarendra’s books in the Odia language translate as: Rashoman and Other Stories(1998) on the theme of State censorship; From Salunki to St Lawrence (2001), reflective essays on travel; and Identity Quest (2002), a translation with commentary of writings by Nirmal Varma on the relationship between Eastern and Western cultures. He also co-authored Out of This Earth: East India Adivasis and the Aluminium Cartel (2010) with Dr. Felix Padel of the University of Sussex. His main documentary films, with Amarendra Das, are: Wira Pdika or Earth Worm : Company Man (2005), about mining in Orissa; Ladaat Jaare or The Struggle (2006), about forest rights in central India; and Kandhamal 2008 (2011), about the communal violence that engulfed his home district in Odisha. Samarendra is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for World Environmental History, Sussex University, and a co-founder of the grassroots organisation Foil Vedanta. He is currently working on a film on illegal iron ore mining in India and a booklet called Sabu Luha Lokonkoro or Iron ore is for Everyone.

Dyah Pitaloka

Dyah Pitaloka received her PhD in Communication, from the University of Oklahoma, USA in May 2014. She was a Fulbright scholar and had been teaching in the university in Indonesia for eight years prior to her PhD. Dyah won a Chevening Scholar and completed her Masters degree in Advertising and Marketing Communication at the University of Leeds, UK in 2001.

Her research and teaching interests include Health Communication and Culture, Gender and Health, Women’s health and Social Change, Health Policy, Health Politics and Human Rights, Narrative of Illness, Ethnography, and Culture-Centered Approach to Health Communication. Her PhD dissertation entitled, “The Passive (Violence) of Harmony and Balance: Javanese Women’s Lived Experienced with Type 2 Diabetes” explores the lived experiences of Javanese women with diabetes and their everyday life struggle in maintaining harmony and balance as wives, mothers, and members of the society.

Applying interdisciplinary approaches in communication, anthropology, and sociology in the study, her dissertation provides a rich and in-depth stories of women with chronic illness and their contention between identity and power, womanhood and the concept of ‘good mother’, and management of diabetes. Dyah has published in international journal like Health Communication, and has a  manuscript under review with Sociology of Health and Illness. She wrote an encyclopedia chapter with Sage on the topic of Cross-Cultural Competency in Communication. She also served as a reviewer for the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. Currently she working on few more journal papers and her doctoral thesis to convert it into a monograph.

Her research on Javanese women and diabetes was funded by the Fulbright SEA Fund and won the best Qualitative Dissertation Award from the University of Oklahoma in 2014. Back in Indonesia, Dyah work closely with few organizations focusing on health issues and health policy. In 2012 she and her team from Indonesia Family Health Association (PKBI) won a National research grant competition held by Indonesia National AIDS Commission (Komnas AIDS) to conduct a research on the sense meaning making process of condom use among male injection drug users.

Jagadish Thaker (JT)

JT received his PhD from George Mason University’s Health and Strategic Communication program for his research on the role of collective efficacy (perceptions of a group’s collective abilities) in enhancing a community’s adaptive capacity to the impacts of climate change.

His primary research interests are in the fields of health communication, climate change communication, media content analysis, and strategic communication campaigns. JT also holds a master’s degree in English literature from University of Hyderabad.

JT was previously a Graduate Research Assistant on a National Science Foundation grant, examining American broadcast meteorologists’ best practices to communicate climate science. He also worked with Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz (Yale University) on Climate Change in the Indian Mind, the first national sample survey of Indians’ beliefs, attitudes, and policy support about climate change, and other sustainability issues. He co-authored two reports: Climate Change in the Indian Mind and Global Warming’s Six Indias. JT also co-authored a paper that was awarded the top student award in the Applied Communication Division in the 2010 National Communication Association (NCA) conference.

Prior to his PhD degree, JT  worked as an English compere at All India Radio, and as a copywriter in many advertising agencies.  He also taught English in Nizam College, his alma mater.

Kang Sun

Kang Sun received his PhD from the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), Ohio in 2012. His dissertation examined how a globalized political economy, the trans-local mobility of people, and the spatial arrangements in cities all participate in the social construction of the identity of peasant workers as China’s new working class. It explores how China’s historical and geographical changes have seeped into working class everyday identity-making within the framework of a globalized manufacturing industry in the Chinese coastal city of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province. Kang also holds a master’s degree in Scientific and Technical Communication (S&TC) at BGSU. 

Before his education in the US, Kang taught English for four years at Xi’an International Studies University and worked for one year in the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Education in China. Kang’s primary research interests include health communication, modernization and urbanization, migration, working class, and labor, material and social space, and political economy and development communication. While he frequently draws from critical intellectual heritages including cultural studies, cultural geography, Marxism critique of political economy, and development studies, he endeavors to integrate these into a joint force to improve the lives of marginalized social groups and promote structural changes in society.

Kang sees health as a discourse embedded with power hierarchies and structural inequalities. He sees deconstructing such hierarchies and inequalities, and promoting local communities’ agency development as inseparable in formulating social change.

Balamohan Shingade

Balamohan worked as  a Junior Research Officer with CARE, Massey University until June 2022, and was a candidate for the MLitt in Philosophy at the University of Auckland. From 2017 – 2020, he was the Assistant Director and Curator of St Paul St Gallery, Auckland University of Technology. He is a Masters graduate of Elam School of Fine Arts, where he was formerly employed as a Teaching Fellow. Balamohan is also a Hindustani classical singer and publisher at Heron Park. He continues to be engaged with digital community events and the CCA process with CARE.

Pooja Jayan

Pooja’s research interests are in health communication, specifically looking at health experiences and inequalities among marginalized communities. Her doctoral thesis looked at the health and wellbeing of migrant Indian nurses in New Zealand. She received the Society for Research on Women Research Award (SROW).  In her research projects in New Zealand and India, she engages with migrants, refugees, women, and minority communities experiencing marginalization.

Md Mahbubur Rahman

Md Mahbubur’s PhD research topic focused on “Health Communication among the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.” At CARE he is dealing with the refugee and new migrant communities of New Zealand utilizing Kaupapa Māori theories and working on communication research using participatory and Culture-Centered Approach (CCA) theories to develop community driven communication solutions. His primary research interests include health communication, media communication, intercultural communication, migrant health, refugee health, pharmacy and medicine.

Before commencing his PhD study, Md Mahbubar worked as a News Producer at Bangladesh Television (BTV) and as a Program Producer in Bangladesh Betar (Radio Bangladesh). He also worked as a Senior Lecturer, Pharmacy at University of Development Alternative, UODA, Bangladesh in 2009-2010 and continued to participate in the research activities of the Pharmacy department of UODA.

In 2009 he was offered a NOMA scholarship of Norway to do his Regional Masters in Journalism, Media and Communication degree. His Master dissertation titled “Credibility of Al Jazeera English (AJE) News in Bangladesh” examined the credibility of various news channels in Bangladesh like BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera and some local channels.

He was awarded the Gold Medal (Chancellor Award) in his MBA (Master of Business Administration) degree in 2006. He is also a registered Pharmacist of Bangladesh.

Christine Elers – Ngāti Kauwhata, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa

Through her mother, Christine’s iwi or tribal affiliations are Ngāti Kauwhata in the Manawatū, where she was born and has lived most of her life. She is also affiliated to the tribal nations of Ngāti Hauā and Ngāti Maniapoto in Waikato.

Through her father, she traces descendancy to the tribal nations of Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa and Rangitāne in Wairarapa and Ngāi Tahu in the South Island.

Christine is a PhD student utilising the Culture-Centered Approach to build infrastructures for voice amongst Māori with lived realities of multiple socioeconomic and communicative disparities. 

Francine Whittfield

Francine completed a Bachelor of Health Science (Health Promotion) in 2020, cementing her interest for inequitable experiences for minority populations throughout life, specifically those experiencing sexual violence.

Her Master’s studies lead her down the path to critically examine the lived experience of sexual violence disclosure for minority populations. Before commencing her Bachelor study Francine worked as a Dispensary Technician in a community pharmacy in Flat Bush, South Auckland.

Marise Lant

Marise Lant is a Māori Leader, Lobbyist, and Indigenous Rights Protector, as well as the Founder of the 250 Years of Colonisation the Aftermath Group that led the protest and the burning of the Union Jack in opposition and response to the 250 Year Replica Endeavour arrival to Gisborne on 8 October 2019.  She is also known for her work on Māori land rights,  taking the charge on the Te Ture Whenua Reforms to the Waitangi Tribunal which became (Wai 2478) that produced the 2016 report “ He Kura Whenua Ka Rokohanga”. It was later taken forward to the United Nations, and as a result, recommendations were made by the United Nations to the New Zealand Government.

She is a current Māori Claimant to the High Court battling Māori Customary Rights on the Takutai Moana Act, (foreshore and seabed). She has represented on “Te Ohu Whakatika” which later produced the report, “Inaia Tonu Nei” –  a Māori group that provided a forum to empower Māori voices in the conversation on Criminal Justice and Incarceration.

She continues to advocate alongside many community groups on issues relating to suicide, methamphetamine, and Māori incarceration.

Marise was previously Chairperson of the Tairāwhiti District Māori Women’s Welfare League, a representative on the Tairāwhiti District Māori Council, and supporter of the Tairāwhiti Multicultural Council.

Richa Sharma

Community organiser and BA student in Linguistics and Education at Victoria University of Wellington, Richa (she/her) has a passion for people and the planet. She has been working in the political and NGO space since high school both as a Community Organiser and on various governance boards.

She has lived experience as a member of both the Queer community and as a member of the South-Asian diaspora in Aotearoa, and is passionate to ensure these voices can be represented in all levels of our society, from community and social involvement, to our democratic institutions.

Kokila Annamalai

Kokila Annamalai is a community organiser, researcher, facilitator and writer in Singapore, who works with communities at the intersections of multiple marginalities. She is deeply invested in learning and applying practices that facilitate critical consciousness, transformative justice, radical care and community self-determination. Much of her work is devoted to creating voice infrastructures with communities on the margins in spaces such as the arts, media, civil society and academia.

Ashwini Falnikar

Ashwini’s research, and previously employment and volunteering, has been in collaborative projects between NGOs and academic departments. Her PhD thesis is an ethnographic research with the farming community in Maharashtra, India, battling the ongoing agrarian crisis. Her other research project concerns the discursive constructions of inequalities in Singapore. Relying on the Culture-centered methodology, her research examines marginalization, and its implications for social change and public health. Following a Master’s degree in Media and Cultural Studies from Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), Mumbai, India, and an MPhil from the same department, she joined NUS as a PhD student (August 2014 – August 2018). Her master’s film ‘352: Remembering Emergency’ won the gold in students’ film category from Indian Documentary Producers Association (IDPA, 2009). In 2010, she worked in the capacity of Program Associate with the Tsunami-affected indigenous residents of the Nicobar Islands. Driven by practice-oriented creative work for social impact and change, Ashwini worked as a subeditor for a comics magazine for two years between 2010-2012, when she and worked with comics artists and wrote stories for children to develop social conscience. As a PhD student, she was a part-time Research Assistant with Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) where she began her research with farmers. During her PhD candidature, Ashwini has worked as a part-time teaching assistant for six modules at the Department of Communications and New Media. She also attended the 2015 ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School on the theme ‘Politics, Civil society and Participation’, at University of Bremen, Germany. Besides her research, Ashwini has a passion for painting, and track-running.

Dazzelyn Baltazar Zapata

Dazzelyn Baltazar Zapata is currently a lecturer at the Communications and New Media Department, National University of Singapore. She first joined CARE as Graduate Research Administrative Assistant in July 2014 and went on to be a Research Associate after completing her PhD in July 2015. She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow (teaching) with CARE from January 2016. She remains involved with CARE’s working Filipina foreign domestic workers project, the transgender sex workers project (Project Stiletto) and the conference for social change edited book project. Dazzelyn teaches science communication, new media and health communication and critical perspectives in advertising. She was also a tutor for various CNM modules while she was a graduate student with the department such as Theories of Communications and New Media, Communication, New Media and Society, Culture Industries, Social Psychology of New Media, and the IARU NUS ‘Asia Now!’ Global Summer Program. Indigenous peoples, representation, development and mobile phones are the core of Dazzelyn’s PhD dissertation. Her research looked into the influence of mobile phones on the indigeneity of the Igorot people in Mountain Province, Philippines, and explored the connection between mobile phone use and the community’s understanding of development through the culture-centered approach. Prior to moving to Singapore, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines Baguio handling courses in communication, journalism, broadcasting and media studies. She completed her BS Development Communication major in Science Communication at the University of the Philippines Los Banos and MA Media Studies major in Broadcasting at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Back in the Philippines, she is a volunteer facilitator/trainer for various grassroots programs. After completing her bachelor’s degree, she taught full time as gurong pahinungod (teachers to the village program) in a remote indigenous community in Abra, Philippines. For the past 14 years, she has closely worked with various indigenous communities in the Philippines, mostly in the Cordillera Administrative Region where they have a very high concentration of indigenous peoples in the country

Pauline Luk

Pauline Luk is a doctoral student at the Department of Communications & New Media (CNM), National University of Singapore, and a CARE Research Assistant. Pauline received her Master’s degree in Journalism from Renmin University of China for research on the relationship between journalists and public relations practitioners in Hong Kong. Her research interests are in health communication, public relations, and marketing. Prior to joining NUS, Pauline was an Assistant Professor and Programme Director in Public Relations and Advertising for the Department of Journalism and Communication at her alma mater Hong Kong Shue Yan University for more than 10 years. She taught various courses in public relations, integrated marketing, and news reporting, and was also the coordinator of the summer internship programme for undergraduates. Pauline’s previous work experiences include copywriting and account servicing for advertising and public relations agencies in Hong Kong. She also volunteered for AIDS prevention programmes in Hong Kong. In 2010, Pauline attended a summer course held at Renmin University of China called “Summer Institute of Health Communication,” which featured lectures by professors from the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania. In 2011, she participated in workshops in strategic health communication and health crises management at the School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.

Tan Ee Lyn

Ee Lyn was a journalist for over 22 years, first with trade publisher Petroleum Argus and then with Reuters. Based first in Singapore and later Hong Kong, she covered a wide gamut of news ranging from health, science, politics, business and current affairs to disasters like epidemics and earthquakes. From 2006 to early 2013 as Asia health and science correspondent for Reuters, Ee Lyn became deeply interested in public health issues and broader themes like how resource inequity is the root of poor health, morbidity and premature death. In 2009, she received an Asia Human Rights Press Award for an article on maternal mortality in Afghanistan, and in 2010, she earned her master degree in public health from the University of Hong Kong, where her thesis explored the motivations for psychotropic drug abuse in Hong Kong.

Ee Lyn returned to her home base in Singapore in 2013 and now works as a research assistant at the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation, a unit at the National University of Singapore, where she will focus on marginalized and disadvantaged populations and how their health may be impacted. Her other passions are sea swimming, brisk walking, reading and housekeeping.

Somrita Ganchoudhuri

Somrita Ganchoudhuri is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Communications & New Media (CNM). She received her Master’s degree in Communication Studies from University of Hyderabad, India.

Her primary research interests are in the field of health communication, media content analysis and the culture-centered methodologies to develop community-driven communication solutions to various issues. Her Masters thesis titled ‘Media Coverage of Delhi High Court Judgement on Section 377’ focuses on how the Delhi High Court verdict of decriminalizing homosexual behavior was framed by different elite English newspapers in India. Her paper goes beyond noting the different frames in the media to critique lack of a more democratic, rights-based approaches in media coverage of sexual minorities. Currently her thesis is concerned with examining the role of Nongovernmental organizations in health sector, and communication processes and strategies and tactics they use in the realm of HIV/AIDS in Nagaland while also asking critical questions about health disparities, culture and health to identify the extent to which health issues have been addressed.

Previously she worked at Thomson Reuters as a publishing specialist. As a part of Corporate Social Responsibility at Thomson Reuters, she worked closely with marginalized communities such as elderly and orphans.

Daniel Teo

Daniel Teo was a CARE Research Assistant and a Master’s degree student at the Department of Communications & New Media (CNM), National University of Singapore (NUS). Daniel holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science (1st Class Honours), majoring in Communications with a minor in English Literature. He is also a recipient of the Hill & Knowlton Best Communication Management Award. Daniel’s research interests are in health communication, journalism, public relations, critical theory, cultural studies, and narrative theory. His undergraduate thesis, which critically analyzed news reports on the H1N1 pandemic, was able to combine all these interests. Daniel’s current thesis work for his Master’s degree focuses on health narratives. In 2011, he was invited to spend a semester at Purdue Graduate School as the first student in a developing Purdue-NUS graduate exchange program. Before joining CARE, Daniel worked as a Teaching Assistant at CNM for two years. He taught various classes in public relations, publication and design, and culture industry, and was awarded the department’s Best Teaching Assistant Award in 2011. Daniel’s other work experiences include serving as a military musician in the Singapore Armed Forces, and copywriting annual reports and other publications.

Sarah K Comer

Sarah Comer received her Master’s degree from the University of Georgia’s Department of Communication Studies in the United States and is now working as a CARE Research Assistant. Sarah’s Master’s research focused on redefining pedagogical and evaluative practices used for communication training in American medical schools. Specifically, she examined how physicians can best communicate with their patients about difficult subjects such as error disclosure and behavior change. Before joining CARE, Sarah was a research assistant for a collaborative grant funded by the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse through the University of Georgia and Emory University. This grant focused on teaching safe sex negotiation skills in hopes of lowering HIV/AIDS rates. Sarah also worked at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center as a research assistant to the Behavioral Science team working on projects such as multimedia development for continuing medical education, interpersonal communication development for Physician Assistants, and the development of a social support website for cancer survivors. Sarah’s other research interests include decision-making in health settings, cross-cultural communication in hospitals, conceptualizations of health by marginalized populations, and health intervention planning. Sarah can be contacted at sarah.k.comer@gmail.com

Abdul Rahman

Rahman was a Research Assistant and a Multimedia Producer at CARE. He received his Bachelor’s of Social Science (BSc) from the National University of Singapore with a major in Communications and New Media and minor in English Language. Rahman’s previous work experiences include project management and client servicing, along with the handling of publication design projects and videography assignments. Some of his clients include Mandom (Gatsby), Inter-Racial and Religious Confidence Circle, MOE Malay Language Centre and Artbug – Centre for the Arts.

Ahmed Khan

Ahmed Khan was a doctoral student at the Department of Communications & New Media (CNM), National University of Singapore, and a CARE Research Assistant. He is a self-professed “story teller.” He has produced and directed films on rights-based issues around the world. Selected key directorial work include The Dreaming Vendors (Bangladesh-Thailand), Votes Echoing Hope (Afghanistan), andClick to Protect, Change to Connect (Brazil-Thailand). Ahmed was the artistic director of the first human rights film festival in Thailand. He has also previously worked in the knowledge management for human rights, and on social justice issues such as culture and current affairs, children and women, ethnic minorities and migrant workers. Ahmed has also conducted extensive academic research on rights-based awareness and media in South and Southeast Asia.  He has worked in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Thailand, and Jordan, and received training in Italy and the Netherlands. Ahmed holds two Master of Arts degrees, one in Philosophy (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh) and one in Human Rights and Social Development (Mahidol University, Thailand). He also received a diploma from the European-Inter University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) Summer School on the topic “Cinema and Human Rights.” Ahmed’s experience in knowledge management and organizational development is combined with strong verbal and written communication skills which have been instrumental in his work as a lecturer, mediator, facilitator, trainer and coordinator of programs.

Naomi Tan

Naomi is currently pursuing her MA with the Department of Communications and New Media. During her time as an undergraduate She was previously an undergraduate student at CNM, with experience working on research projects on the role of ICTs in developing communities and for marginalised groups. For her Masters thesis, she plans to delve deeper into the fields of health and development communication. Her dissertation will focus on the problem of food insecurity in Singapore, the communicative erasure of the subaltern in this context, and instances of resistance and agency. Her other research interests include the usage of ICTs in developing countries, and new social movements.

Manishankar Prasad

Manishankar was a Research Assistant at CARE. He has read Msc. in Environmental Engineering from the National University of Singapore and Graduate level coursework in Sociology from the Nanyang Technological University on a National Research Foundation-Competitive Research Program Scholarship. Prior to CARE, he was a Senior Consultant with a boutique sustainability advisory in Muscat, Oman and a Project Manager with a Fortune 500 Engineering Services Major in Gurgaon and Mumbai in India. Manishankar is a popular Development Blogger and has been associated with a number of non profits in Singapore, Mumbai and Delhi. His career interests are located at the intersection of Social Development, Sustainability and Research Project Management.

Munirah Bashir

Munirah worked at the National Gallery for a few months as a research assistant dealing mainly with copyright issues and a project that would be launched when the museum opens. Currently, she is working on the Malay Heart Health Project and is excited to be part of other projects in CARE that will benefit the society. Her interests lie in seeking knowledge; basically anything that requires me to learn something new and imparting it another person. And for this reason, learning new languages, travelling, cultural exchanges and art with a spiritual aspect such as calligraphy, are the things she looks forward to during her free time.

Muhammad Ehab Rasul

Studying at the University of South Florida, Muhammad’s Master’s thesis explored the risk perceptions of COVID-19 and how misinformation and polarisation affects the perception of political and health messages and what subsequent behaviours follow. His research interests centre around emerging media, political and health communication.

Sohinee Bera

Sohinee has worked on projects such as a food waste campaign and Māori language revitalisation. For the first time she is working on a project from a culture-centred approach, studying Agricultural Communications with a focus on international development, human rights, statistical analysis and behavioural research. This enabled her to gain experience on social change communication and how to provide a platform for voices that often get ignored and/or silenced.

Sohinee’s strong writing and public speaking skills, creativity, artistic talent and passion for social justice have contributed a meaningful and unique perspective to CARE.