URVIJA
BANERJI
Journalist
About Me
Freelance writer living in Brooklyn. Content writing and editing work for Netflix, StartEngine and JJ Education Consulting. Experience on editorial staff at Rolling Stone India, The Swaddle and Atlas Obscura.
Education
2019 / MAY
Columbia Journalism School
Master of Arts in Arts and Culture journalism. Coursework included PhD level courses in the English and Art History depts on jazz studies, post-colonialism, and the photographer Gordon Parks. 10,000 word thesis story on queer futurism at a commune in South Brooklyn.
2015 / JUN
Princeton University
Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. Coursework included Micro and Macro Economics, Creative Writing, Literature and Art in New York, Developmental Psychology.
100 page thesis on the formation of immigrant identity in the works of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.