Black and brown folks in the Florida panhandle use a data-first approach to shape community responses through crime waves, hurricanes, and the pandemic.

Author Archives: Ambika Samarthya-Howard
From Bollywood to Nigeria, Ambika has been creating, teaching and writing at the intersection of storytelling and social good for two decades. She believes in working with local teams, developing work collaboratively, and taking risks in telling authentic, powerful stories. She has produced content for Current TV, UNICEF, Havas, Praekelt.org, UNICEF, UNFPA, and Save the Children and trained for BBC Media Action, Columbia University, and the New York Film Academy. She led the content curation and writing for the Medium Publication, Mobile For Good, and has spoken about social good projects and inclusivity at over 20 conferences globally. She was recently the contributing editor for PRISM's refugee resettlement series, and she is currently a Solutions Journalism LEDE Fellow.