Simmerdeep Kaur
Simmer stepped into the world of journalism as an undergraduate when she was working as a reporter for her university’s editorial team. After serving as the General Secretary of a non-profit and interning with several media outlets in North India, she is now building on her previous work at Berkeley Journalism.
But after coming to Berkeley, she was also determined to reinvent herself and go beyond writing! In the past two years she has acquired data skills by learning python, R and tools for visualizations, to be a strong supplemental tool for her enterprise stories.
Through it all, she has produced stories covering a wide variety of topics like ‘Psychedelic Assisted Therapy’, ‘COVID-19 Ambush on Mental Health’, ‘Exiled Journalists’, ‘Understanding and Managing OCD’, ‘The Despicable Reality of Marital Rape in India’, and ‘Impact of Image Generative AI on Artists,’ to name a few.
EDUCATION
Chandigarh University, India - B.S., Journalism and Mass Communication (Print and Digital Media)
August 2019 - May 2022University of California, Berkeley - M.J., Multimedia and Data Journalism
EMPLOYERS
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Visiting Scholars and Postdoc Affairs, UC Berkeley - News Editor
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Student Editorial Board, Chandigarh University - Reporter
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Yugmarg, Regional Newspaper of North India - Editorial Intern
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The Lifestyle Journalist - Writer
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Bay News Rising, San Francisco - Reporter
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California Reporting Project, Investigative Reporting Center- Data Intern
PUBLICATIONS & OTHER WORK
The Daily Californian
Berkeley Science Review
Bay News Rising
Oakland North
Yugmarg
The Lifestyle Journalist
MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS
International Student Journalist Association (ISJA) - President
South Asian Journalist Association (SAJA) - Board Member
Rotaract Club Chandigarh Shivalik (RCCS), a nonprofit organization in North India - Former General Secretary
REPORTING INTERESTS
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Technology, Data Journalism, International Relations, War and Conflict