Manish Khanal

Manish Khanal

Alumni

Manish Khanal is a reporter, producer and documentary filmmaker based in the SF Bay Area.

His work has been recognized by Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, Miami Film Festival, the Knight Foundation and IF/THEN Shorts. He is a member of the IATSE Local 16 and holds a Master of Journalism degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied documentary filmmaking.

He currently resides in Oakland, California and is an Associate Producer at Citizen Film.

EDUCATION

  • University of California-Berkeley, Master of Journalism Candidate - Expected Completion May 2022

  • Florida State University, B.S. Marketing - July 2017

EMPLOYERS

  • Local News Intern at the Investigative Reporting Program, Summer 2021

MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS

  • Asian American Journalists Association

  • South Asian Journalists Association

  • Entrepreneurial Journalists Association

REPORTING INTERESTS

Arts and Culture, Cities, Environmental Justice, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Music, gentrification