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Dionne Bunsha

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Dionne Bunsha is Climate and Conservation Engagement Coordinator, at the University of British Columbia Botanical Gardens in Canada.[1] She was a prominent journalist in India.

Background

Bunsha was born and raised in Mumbai, India. She completed a Bachelors degree in economics and commerce at the University of Mumbai, and a diploma in Social Communications Media at the Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai, in 1995. She has a Master’s degree in Development Studies from the London School of Economics (2000), and in 2008 Bunsha was awarded a prestigious John S. Knight Fellowship for journalism at Stanford University, USA. In mid-2009 she enrolled as a PhD student in environmental studies at Simon Fraser University in Canada, but graduated with a Masters in Resource and Environment Management in 2012. By 2010 she had moved into research on indigenous community conservation and cultural heritage, and lectured at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. From 2015-2021 she led the Lower Fraser Aboriginal Knowledge project, responding to oil spills and climate change,[2] before joining the University of British Columbia.

Journalism

Bunshaa was a prominent journalist in India, mostly in the 1990s and 2000s, exposing suicide deaths among farmers, religious strife in India, human rights, threats to the Indian environment and a range of other crucial issues. She worked for The Times of India from 1995-1999, and then Frontline magazine from 2001-2008. Her published articles are on human rights, politics, wildlife conservation and climate change.[3] More recently she has written for the Guardian, and the Toronto Star. She authored the prizewinning book, Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat (2006).

Awards

She was awarded two of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards in 2006-2007 for 'Environmental Reporting' and 'Books (Non-Fiction)', presented by the President of India A. P. J. Kalam;[4] the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Journalism for Tolerance Prize for South Asia in 2005;[5] the Sanskriti Award for Journalism in 2003; and the People’s Union for Civil Liberties Human Rights Award in 2003.

References

  1. ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/dionnebunsha/?originalSubdomain=ca [self-published source]
  2. ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/dionnebunsha/details/experience/ [self-published source]
  3. ^ "Class of 2009".
  4. ^ "Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards 2006". Express India. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  5. ^ "IFJ Global - Announcement of Winners for South Asia IFJ Journalism for Tolerance Prize". IFJ.org. 23 December 2005. Retrieved 2 September 2011.

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