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INDRANI SEN
180 South 4th St. #2N, Brooklyn, NY
phone: 646 567 6740
lawfordroad@gmail.com
www.indraniclips.com
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
FREELANCE WRITER: November 2005 to present
• Based in Brooklyn, NY, and writes news, feature and food stories in America
and abroad.
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR: fall 2007 to present
• City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism – lead professor
of Craft of Journalism I and II classes in master’s program.
WRITER IN RESIDENCE: fall 2007 to present
• Bronx Academy of Letters – teaches an honors writing intensive class in
journalism, and advises, edits, lays out and maintains a website for the student
newspaper at this public high school.
STAFF REPORTER: 2001 to November 2005
• Newsday, Melville, NY – covered politics and wrote crime, breaking news
and feature stories.
SPECIAL WRITER: 2002
• “American Lives” – a Newsday-published book of profiles of those killed on
Sept. 11, 2001
STAFF REPORTER: 2000
• The Bay State Banner, Boston, MA. – covered politics, crime, education and
transportation for this paper covering Boston’s black and Latino communities.
STAFF REPORTER: 1999
• The Cambridge Chronicle and Tab, Cambridge, MA. – covered education,
crime and politics and wrote features for two jointly-owned weekly newspapers.
STAFF REPORTER: 1998 TO 1999
• The Needham Tab, Needham, MA. – covered education and politics.
EDUCATION
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, New
York, NY – Master of Science, May 2001
OXFORD UNIVERSITY, Oxford, UK – Bachelor of Arts degree in English
literature and language, May 1997
SKILLS
Reporting, editing, teaching, research, InDesign layout, Lexis Nexis and other
database searching, using wiki technology in the classroom, basic web design and
website maintenance, basic news photography, computer-assisted reporting.
VOLUNTEER WORK
• weekly tutor/mentor to three children in Brooklyn: 2002 to present.
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