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Ravi Kumar is part of the Online and Social Media Unit at the World Bank in Washington D.C. He serves as an Online and Social Media Assistant and as the editor of YouThink!, the World Bank's online space for youth to learn and discuss development topics.
He has a Masters of Science degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. At Columbia he specialized in digital media and was a fellow at Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. As a graduate student at Columbia, he volunteered as a webmaster for the Society of Professional Journalists, and served on The Earth Institute Student Advisory Council.
He is a blogger at the Huffington Post, WiredAcademic, and SAJA Forum. He has written on topics such as education, technology, South Asian politics and Occupy Wall Street Protest. In July 2012, Global Post published his master’s thesis, an investigative story about Nepalis who use existing human smuggling networks in Central America to illegally enter the U.S.
Prior to enrolling at Columbia as a graduate student in 2011, he co-founded a non-profit in New York to renovate primary schools in remote parts of Nepal, and he interned at Meet the Press, at NBC in Washington, D.C.
As an undergraduate at Buena Vista University, he worked as a multimedia reporter and news editor for the award winning university newspaper. He also published a manuscript in Critique: A worldwide journal of politics.
He is a veteran frugal traveller and an aspiring data journalism geek. Oh, when he is not doing anything he dreams about climbing Mount Everest.
He has a Masters of Science degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. At Columbia he specialized in digital media and was a fellow at Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. As a graduate student at Columbia, he volunteered as a webmaster for the Society of Professional Journalists, and served on The Earth Institute Student Advisory Council.
He is a blogger at the Huffington Post, WiredAcademic, and SAJA Forum. He has written on topics such as education, technology, South Asian politics and Occupy Wall Street Protest. In July 2012, Global Post published his master’s thesis, an investigative story about Nepalis who use existing human smuggling networks in Central America to illegally enter the U.S.
Prior to enrolling at Columbia as a graduate student in 2011, he co-founded a non-profit in New York to renovate primary schools in remote parts of Nepal, and he interned at Meet the Press, at NBC in Washington, D.C.
As an undergraduate at Buena Vista University, he worked as a multimedia reporter and news editor for the award winning university newspaper. He also published a manuscript in Critique: A worldwide journal of politics.
He is a veteran frugal traveller and an aspiring data journalism geek. Oh, when he is not doing anything he dreams about climbing Mount Everest.
