Choekyi Lhamo
Choekyi Lhamo (she/her) is a third generation Tibetan born and raised in India.
Lhamo is currently a journalism student at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism pursuing narrative writing and investigative reporting. As a former reporter at Phayul, one of the leading news websites on Tibet, Lhamo wrote extensively about the diaspora, produced videos on enterprise stories, and profiled Tibetan creatives.
Since coming to Berkeley, she has produced over a dozen stories for Richmond Confidential covering city council, policing, Tibetan community in the Bay Area, and issues close to Richmonders as part of her internship at the Investigative Reporting Program under the guidance of their Local News Editor Christine Schiavo.
Lhamo’s work has been published in Bay Area News, Global Voices, Yeshe Journal, Tibetan Review, Richmond Confidential, and Phayul.
Lhamo is currently working as the news editor at Visiting Scholars and Postdoc Affairs office at UC Berkeley, and as an academic tutor at the school for award-winning author of ‘Prison Truth: The Story of the San Quentin News’ and journalist William Drummond in his class on race and incarceration.
EDUCATION
MA in English Studies at Center for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
BA in English Honors at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi
EMPLOYERS
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Visiting Scholars and Postdoc Affairs at UC Berkeley (Aug 2024 - Present)
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Investigative Reporting Program (May 2024 - Aug 2024)
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Tibetan Review
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Phayul (Nov 2019 - Dec 2022)
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Global Voices
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Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
AWARDS & HONORS
Tibetan Fulbright Scholar '23
Dean's Fellowship '23
South Asian Journalists Association Fellow '24
MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS
South Asian Journalists Association Berkeley — Chair
Society of Professional Journalists — Member
Investigative Reporters & Editors — Member
REPORTING INTERESTS
Community Reporting, Diaspora, Identity, Politics, Visual Investigations, migration