Bijoyeta Sahoriya Das is an award-winning storyteller.
She has worked as an independent journalist, photographer and media trainer. She reported from South and Southeast Asia, Turkey and the US, writing for Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, Radio France, Radio Netherlands, Women’s eNew among others. She trained journalists and developed local media institutions in South Sudan for two years. She writes long-form narratives and literary features and wrote a creative non-fiction biography of Haiti’s first woman prime minister.
Currently she is working as the Program Director and Assistant Professor of Journalism at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York and pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in Cinematography from Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, New York.