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Name: Sunita Sohrabji
Profile: Sunita Sohrabji is a veteran community journalist whose career spans India-West and American Community Media. She joined India-West in 1987, when the South Asian community in the Bay Area was still growing, and became known for reporting on crime, hate violence, mental health, immigrant labor, public health, and other stories often overlooked by mainstream newsrooms. Her work helped document the growth of Indian American civic life while also bringing attention to difficult issues within and affecting the community, including anti-South Asian violence, postpartum depression, youth mental health, domestic labor exploitation, and electronic waste. In her later work with American Community Media, Sohrabji continued to emphasize community-centered public-service journalism, including health reporting, hate-crime awareness, and multilingual media briefings. In her interview for the South Asians in Silicon Valley Initiative, she described community media as advocacy, saying, “We are advocates for our communities.”
Position: Veteran journalist; former reporter, India-West; Health Editor, American Community Media
More Information: American Community Media profile
Subject: South Asian American journalism; Indian American journalism; community journalism; Ethnic media; India-West; American Community Media; Health journalism; Public health reporting; Hate crimes; Anti-South Asian violence; Mental Health; Bay Area journalism