About
Stories that matter,
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Dionne Bunsha is an award-winning journalist, author and environmental professional, whose work spans the intersections of environmental conservation, climate action, human rights and social change. From the coast of Gujarat to the old-growth rainforests of British Columbia, her reporting gives voice to communities confronting violence, displacement, and ecological destruction.
She served as Senior Assistant Editor for Frontline magazine in Mumbai, and her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Hindu, and New Internationalist. Her book Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat remains an essential account of communal violence and its lasting aftermath.
Dionne has been working on environmental and climate action in British Columbia. She was Climate and Conservation Engagement Coordinator for the UBC Botanical Garden and co-led the creation of the Action for Adaptation Biodiversity Atlas and Policy Toolkit (www.actionforadaptation.ca). She also served as the Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Adaptation Coordinator for the Lower Fraser Fisheries Alliance, an alliance of 30 First Nations in the lower Fraser, where she interviewed more than 130 fishers to develop an online indigenous knowledge database.
She holds a Master's in Resource and Environmental Management from Simon Fraser University and an M.Sc. in Development Studies from the London School of Economics. She was a Knight International Journalism Fellow (Stanford, 2008–09) and recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence Awards, the IFJ Journalism for Tolerance Prize, and the PUCL Journalism for Human Rights Award.
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