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Name
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Deepa Fernandes
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Profile
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Deepa Fernandes is a bilingual, award-winning radio and print journalist born in Mumbai to Goan parents and raised in Australia. She began in Sydney community radio at 2SER, later reporting across Latin America and the U.S., with a focus on immigration, education, and communities often left out of mainstream coverage. She served as a co-host of NPR and WBUR’s Here & Now, reported as an immigration correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, and founded People’s Production House to help diversify journalism. A three-time LA Press Club “Radio Journalist of the Year,” she has also received an LA Area Emmy.
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Position
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Journalist and Audio Producer
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Public Radio Host
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Journalism Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford University)
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Subject
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journalism
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public radio
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audio storytelling
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immigration
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South Asian diaspora
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Goa
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Mumbai
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community media
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diversity in journalism
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Relation
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NPR/WBUR "Here & Now
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People’s Production House
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Southern California Public Radio (KPCC)
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"Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration" (2007)
