Ravleen Kaur

Ravleen Kaur

Ravleen Kaur

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Ravleen Kaur is a journalist from Portland, Oregon with roots in the Bay Area. Currently, she’s a health and environment reporter for Richmond Confidential.

Her work has ranged from reporting on education for Portland-area newspapers to documenting testimonies of India’s 1984 anti-Sikh massacres. She’s interested in pursuing stories about power, identity, and human rights. In particular, she’s focused on capturing narratives about immigrant communities and diasporic identity along the intersections of race, remembrance, and resilience.

EDUCATION

  • Master's candidate at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
    Expected graduation in 2020

  • Bachelor of Arts in English, Portland State University
    Graduated in 2015

EMPLOYERS

  • Reporter, Pamplin Media Group

  • Research Fellow, 1984 Living History Project

  • News Intern, Willamette Week

  • Reporter, Portland State Vanguard

  • Arts Intern, Oregon Public Broadcasting

AWARDS & HONORS

  • Student Scholarship — South Asian Journalists Association

  • 2018 Mary Quon Moy Ing Memorial Scholarship — Asian American Journalists Association

  • Dean's Merit Fellowship — UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

  • Johnathan Rodgers Fellow — UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS

  • Asian American Journalists Association

  • South Asian Journalists Association

REPORTING INTERESTS

Community Reporting, Diasporic identity, Health, Human Rights, Immigration, Investigative reporting, Power

MEDIA PLATFORMS

Multimedia, Narrative Writing