Indrani Sen teaches Craft of Journalism I and II at the City University of New
York's Graduate School of Journalism. She is a freelance writer who has written for
the New York Times, the Village Voice, Saveur magazine, the Christian Science Monitor,
the San Francisco Chronicle, and thenation.com, among other publications. She is also a
writer in residence and journalism teacher at Bronx Academy of Letters, a public high
school. Sen was a staff reporter at Newsday from 2001 to 2005, where she covered politics
and wrote crime, breaking news, and feature stories. She was the special writer of
“American Lives” - a Newsday-published book of profiles of those killed on Sept. 11,
2001. Previously she held reporter positions at various Boston area newspapers, including
the Bay State Banner, a paper covering Boston’s black and Latino communities. She holds a
B.A. in English literature and language from Oxford University and an M.S. from Columbia
University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her website is www.indraniclips.com.
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