Anjali Kamat

Anjali Kamat is an award-winning investigative journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker from Chennai, India based in New York City. She’s reported from around the world and her work covers geopolitics, globalization, migration, poverty, social movements, trauma, war, and the intersection of money and politics. She's been a reporter and host at New York Public Radio, Al Jazeera's current affairs documentary show Fault Lines, and the daily television and radio news hour Democracy Now! You can also read and listen to her recent work on NPR, The New Republic, Slate, Dissent, and the Trump, Inc. and The Stakes podcasts. Anjali has an MA in Near Eastern Studies from New York University, spent 2011 covering the Arab uprisings from Egypt and Libya, and is writing a book on South Asian labor migration to the Middle East for Verso Books.