Ankur Paliwal is an award-winning independent journalist and the founder and managing editor of queerbeat, a new collaborative journalism venture focused on accurately covering LGBTQIA+ communities in India. In his thirteen years of journalism, Ankur has sought to shine a light on the stories of underreported people and places. He has written about neglected crops and diseases, queer and indigenous communities, and caste and climate change in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa for various publications, including The Guardian, Nature, Scientific American, and FiftyTwo. Ankur holds a master’s degree in Science Journalism from Columbia University in New York.
