Nandhini Srinivasan

An investigative reporter from Chennai, India, and the Sir Harry Evans Fellow for 2026, Nandhini Srinivasan is currently working with the Data & Computational Journalism team, documenting rising heat waves across the globe.

She graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism with a specialisation from the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. After gaining her degree, she was an investigative reporting fellow at The Tributary in Jacksonville, Florida, where she covered education politics. She compiled public data to report on state legislator Vicki Lopez’s involvement in legalising school bus cameras in Florida, a move that financially benefited a company that had just hired her son in a senior executive position. Working jointly with the Miami Herald, she produced a follow-up investigation on the same company’s school bus camera programme in Miami, which was erroneously fining drivers. The coverage led to the programme being scrapped in Miami-Dade county and the local school board investigating how the contract was put in place.

At Columbia she reported on poor conditions in public housing and the legal challenges facing its residents, as well as pro-Palestinian protests on campus.