Shefali Kulkarni

About

Shefali S. Kulkarni is an Editor for Digital Storytelling and Training at The New York Times. Prior to this role, Shefali worked as a Digital Operations Editor for The Washington Post. She worked closely with the Financial, Tech, Metro and Education sections at the Post. She ran Social Media & Audience Engagement at BBC News North America during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, which earned her team a Webby Award. Shefali was the Social Media & Engagement Editor for Newsweek magazine. She also worked as the Digital Producer for PRI's "The World" radio program, a co-production of the BBC and produced at WGBH in Boston. Specifically, Shefali worked for Global Nation, a section of the radio program devoted to the diverse immigrant, refugee and asylum-seeking communities in the U.S. Shefali covered domestic health care policy for Kaiser Health News, a non-profit news service with national media partnerships. Her work, which includes print, videos and audio pieces, has appeared in The Washington Post, Politico and NPR's health blog "Shots". Shefali was an editorial assistant at The Daily Beast in New York, covering their social media platforms as well as blogging for their news and entertainment sections. She was part of a team of reporters that helped with the coverage of the Wikileaks scandal and the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Shefali was also a Mary Wright Fellow at The Village Voice in New York City, where she published a national cover story about an undocumented immigrant’s path to getting a heart transplant. Shefali also blogged for the Voice's "Runnin' Scared" blog, including a blog post about coffee names that was featured on NPR's "All Things Considered". Shefali served as the Vice President and Secretary of the South Asian Journalists Association and was on the national executive board for more than four years. She managed over $80K of scholarship funds, maintained the website and helped to create SAJA’s annual internship fund. She is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she studied digital media and received honors in Covering Race & Ethnicity. Shefali attended Beloit College in Wisconsin for her undergraduate studies where she studied Political Science and minored in Journalism. She also wrote her thesis comparing news coverage of the African American community between the Washington Post and the Afro-American newspaper.