Shalini Singh
Executive Editor
Shalini Singh is the Executive Editor in the Core Communications team at WRI India. In this role, she oversees the editing and development of communication products, including blogs and Op-Eds, while also contributing to high-level media strategy and conducting storytelling workshops.
With a career in print journalism from 2006 to 2017, Shalini's reporting on environmental issues has been recognized with several prestigious awards in Indian journalism. She is also a co-founder of the People's Archive of Rural India (PARI), a multimedia repository launched in 2014. From 2018 to 2023, she worked as a freelancer, with her climate change reporting winning the 2023 Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize (silver) from the United Nations Correspondents Association.
In 2017, Shalini was selected as a Nieman Fellow for journalism at Harvard University, spending a year in residence with 23 global counterparts. She holds a postgraduate degree in Social Communications Media from Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai, and a BA (Hons) in Economics from Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University.
When not engaging in her professional work, Shalini enjoys practicing parenting skills on her Dachshund daughter, Sheeba, and dreams of a future where cities are bicycle-friendly for all genders.