Author
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Bhabna Banerjee is an illustrator and data journalist based in Stanford, California. Her creative curiosity and passion for the natural world have led her to explore diverse mediums—from documentary filmmaking to data illustration—as tools to reveal the complexity and fragility of our ecosystems. Her reporting focuses on building visual narratives that help audiences better understand our relationship to the planet—distilling topics like biodiversity loss, weather systems, human and wildlife migration, and impact of climate change on public health. She is also the founder of Planet Anomaly, a climate storytelling initiative that partners with academic and research institutions to visualize environmental data and research and make it accessible to wider audiences. At Stanford, she has focused on building interactive graphics and news applications for the web. She is currently a Climate and Health Reporting Fellow at Inside Climate News and will be joining the New York Times Graphics team upon graduation.