Ambika Kandasamy is a freelance journalist and the former managing editor of Shareable. She got her start in journalism as reporter and assistant news editor at the San Francisco Public Press where she wrote about climate change policies, human trafficking laws, economic development initiatives and other topics. Since then, she has worked as social media producer at Media Cause, news editor at GlobalPost and audience engagement editor at FRONTLINE (PBS).
She has received the Women Immigrants Fellowship from New America Media, the Logan Science Journalism Fellowship from the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Diversity Fellowship from Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Journalists in Aging Fellowship from the Gerontological Society of America. She has a master's degree in journalism from Boston University.
