SCMP Contributor
Meenakshi J is an independent journalist based out of Shillong, India, and an alumna of East West Center, Hawaii. She covers community health, people, climate, solutions, gender, food science and travel. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Nature Medicine, National Geographic, The British Medical Journal, Smithsonian, Hakai Magazine, BBC, The Guardian, Nikkei Asia, among many others.