Sonia NarangSN

Sonia Narang

Multimedia Journalist/Producer
 Sonia Narang is a multimedia journalist who reports on women's rights, climate change & the environment, global health, and music & culture. She has produced and reported in-depth multimedia projects at PRI's The World, including award-winning series on women in Nepal, the fight against cancer around the world, and an innovative school in South Africa. She has also filmed musicians for The World’s Global Hit web videos. Sonia has produced and reported stories across Asia & the Pacific, Europe, Africa, and North America for the BBC, NPR News, Washington Post's The Lily, The New York Times, Frontline/World, NBC, and Time.com. It's true, Sonia once filmed a cat café in Osaka, Japan. She's also reported on Indigenous fashion in Canada, women farmers affected by cyclones in Fiji, the aftermath of the Japan tsunami, and the controversy over U.S. military bases in Okinawa. A native Californian, Sonia has a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Before that, she cut her teeth reporting and photographing for a newspaper in Colorado. 
The Red Dress night honored murdered and missing Indigenous women, and girls, Two Spirit and LGBTQ+ people in Canada and worldwide.
Fashion
They call her a ‘Mountain Mover’ — Founder of Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week revolutionizes the runway
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Former model shines spotlight on Indigenous fashion in Vancouver
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Estonians revive folk music traditions
The Estonian folk music quartet 6hunesseq performs during Tallinn Music Week. From left to right, Marion Selgall, Greta Liisa Grünberg, Maria Mänd and Kaisa Kuslapuu.
All-women Estonian quartet brings ancient folk music to the forefront
Maria Beraldo
Music
Musician Maria Beraldo rebels against Brazil’s far-right leader through song
Musicians sit on a stage in blue lighting
Azoreans long for family abroad with this double-hearted instrument
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It took a cyclone for some Tongan women to get reproductive health care for the first time
Water is life
Environment
Navajo women struggle to preserve traditions as climate change intensifies
Inka Saara Arttijeff
Culture
Finland’s reindeer-herding Sámi women fight climate change
Elisabeth Holland
Environment
An American scientist stands up for the Pacific Islands at UN climate talks
Fiji's Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama recently led a rally in support of this year's UN climate summit in Germany, at which Fiji will be presiding.
Environment
Fijians speak from the front lines of climate change
Model
Arts
These photos show the strength and beauty of aboriginal cultures in Canada
Large photo installed on one side of metal fencing looks out over Border Patrol SUV
Arts
Mexicans and Americans bond over a giant baby and a border wall
Protesters demonstrate outside a US Marine base on Okinawa. The US plans to greatly expand the base in the rural fishing village of Henoko.
Conflict
Despite longstanding local opposition, the US is expanding its Okinawa military base
Sunila Wati at her vegetable stall in the market in Rakiraki, Fiji
Education
Extreme weather is wreaking havoc on the lives of women farmers in Fiji
The band members of Bokanté hail from four continents, and their music draws influences from Caribbean rhythms, West African music, and Mississippi Delta blues.
Culture
Bokanté serves up songs in the key of Creole
Business, Finance & Economics
Japanese consumers tighten spending
Kumiko Onaga
Conflict
In Okinawa, older women are on the front lines of the military base protest movement
Man in sweatshirt with public defenders logo holds sign in Arabic
Justice
Federal judges have temporarily blocked parts of Trump’s immigration restrictions, but agents are still detaining people
Okinawa protest
Conflict
Okinawa, host to many US military bases, braces for a Trump presidency
Mohamad Sheikh Ali and his daughter (center) bake bread at a campfire in Denmark. They fled dangers in Syria before it was too late.
They fled Aleppo. Now they’re starting a new life in rural Denmark.
German flag rainbow painting
Education
A German school welcomes its refugee students with a special classroom
Bushra cooks food for her family inside her temporary living quarters at Berlin’s Tempelhof refugee shelter.
Conflict
Pregnant inside Tempelhof, Germany’s largest refugee camp
Religion
When schoolgirls become mothers in rural Indonesia
Business, Economics and Jobs
Western Japan far away but not unaffected
Politics
In Japan, logistical difficulties hamper aid effort
Business, Economics and Jobs
Japan: migration to Osaka
Lifestyle
Japan: anti-government criticism on the rise
Agence France-Presse
Japan: Kyoto anti-nuke protests
Politics
Japan: Tsunami survivors stay put despite hardships
Business, Economics and Jobs
The Other Bollywood: Tamil cinema makes a name for itself
Agence France-Presse
The Earth Project: Green Breeze
Justice
Philippines embraces free birth control despite opposition from Catholic Church (VIDEO)
Musicians from Scandinavia and southern Africa play a jam session at a Danish café during the Copenhagen Jazz Festival this month.
Music
These African and Scandinavian musicians create sweet sounds in Copenhagen
Iftar at Templehof
Conflict
Improvising an Iftar feast in a refugee shelter
Women community health workers in Dolakha district walk up the hill for a monthly meeting inside the under-construction health center. The new building will replace the clinic destroyed in the earthquake last year.
Development
They survived the earthquake. Now they’re determined to keep their village healthy.
24-year-old Prapti Tamang's two-story house was destroyed during the 2015 earthquake.
Development
Portraits from Nepal: Survivors struggle to rebuild a year after the deadly quake
Bimala Parajuli is a volunteer community health worker in a remote mountain village in Nepal. Her home was destroyed in last year's earthquake.
Health
This Nepali health care volunteer kept saving lives even after losing her own home
Shreesha Duwal
Development
A feisty 12-year-old shows us what life in Nepal is like after the earthquake
Yanti
Business
The food shop is tiny, but it represents something big for her: freedom
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Food
Why are kids going hungry in one of California’s most productive farming regions?
Phan Thi Vietanh, from Hanoi, Vietnam, works for the online newspaper VNExpress.net.
Environment
During the Paris climate summit, a youth hostel hosted international journalists from Kenya to Vietnam. Here’s what they wanted to know
— Miriam Talwisa, executive coordinator, Youth Plus Policy Network | Kampala, Uganda.
Environment
In Paris, the young know it’s really up to them to fix the world
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Business
This bank hired its first female employee, and now women line up to open accounts
Kailash Satyarthi
Development
‘If they cannot save the girls, they are not going to save the future’
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Health
How Los Angeles is testing ways to keep undocumented immigrants healthy
Natasha Kroupensky and Aline Herrera
Arts
These young Mexican women artists are speaking up
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Development
It took a bride shortage for some northern India communities to realize the value of girls
A beautiful sound and light installation with mirrors by 24-year-old Cuban artist Rachel Valdés Camejo. I met Rachel on my last day in Havana, and just had to check out her exhibition before heading to the airport after an amazing week at the Havana Bienn
Culture
Seeing the art and culture of the Havana Biennial
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Education
Once forced to study in secret, this Indian professor inspires a generation of female students
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Health
This Iraqi couple fled ISIS but face another enemy in the US — diabetes
The Living Goddess, known as a Kumari Devi, is worshipped in Nepal by Hindus and Buddhists alike. Each Kumari Devi is chosen at a very young age. Samita, the girl in this picture, is no longer a Kumari Devi. Since the photo was taken, she started mentruat
Belief
Do Nepalis pray to a child goddess after an earthquake?
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Health
How Filipino moms endure a maternity ward that’s like ‘a blaring supermarket deli counter’
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Health
The debate over ‘natural family planning’: Does it work?
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Development
In this Manila ‘baby factory,’ why women put up with crowding four to a bed
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Health
How this clinic has changed a nation’s view of family planning
Health
Catholic leaders battle against free birth control in the Philippines
Gilda Maviango, right, and grandmother Salfina with Gilda's baby
Development
Photos show the struggles women in Mozambique face getting health care