Somini Sengupta,

Somini Sengupta is an international climate reporter on the New York Times climate team. She writes about people coping with life on a hotter Earth, often focusing on the world's poorest and their efforts to adapt to climate change. She has spent many years as an international correspondent, covering West Africa and South Asia in more than 50 countries, including 10 conflict zones. She has also covered international diplomacy as the United Nations correspondent and been the lead writer of the Climate Forward newsletter. Sengupta was born in India and grew up first in Western Canada and then in Southern California. She graduated from Covina High School, where she played clarinet and bassoon in band and ran sprints on the track team. She earned a bachelor's degree in English and development studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and spent a summer studying politics at the University of Oxford. Sengupta has received several awards for her journalism, including a George Polk Award for international reporting and awards from the National Press Club, the National Association of Black Journalists and the Newswomen's Club of New York. Her first book, 'The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young,' was published in 2016 by W.W. Norton. Sengupta is committed to journalistic ethics and accuracy, aspiring to tell the stories of ordinary men, women and children whose voices are not always heard. She believes strongly in including a diversity of voices, especially those from underrepresented communities in the United States and beyond. She can be contacted at sengupta@nytimes.com.