Akanksha Saxena

Editor at Deutsche Welle

Akanksha Saxena is an award-winning digital and TV journalist focusing on politics, gender issues and the environment in India and other South Asian countries. She is an editor at Deutsche Welle's Asia Desk, based in Bonn, Germany. She was previously a Field Producer and Journalist for BBC News in New Delhi.

With this fellowship, she hopes to produce stories focused on the impact of virtual health platforms in India, particularly U-WIN, which records immunization records for pregnant women and newborns. She will travel to India to conduct research and newsgathering for the fellowship.