Usha Sookai is an NYC-based journalist and singer-songwriter. A multi-tasker and hyphenated to the max, she’s also a graduate of New York University and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
As an Indo-Caribbean, lifelong New Yorker, Usha cares deeply about highlighting minority and underserved populations. She’s also a self-taught singer-songwriter. Find her work on Instagram.
She’s currently a Social Media Producer at The Real Deal. Previously, she interned at NBCUniversal, Foreign Policy Magazine, CNN, and NY1. She recently worked part-time as The New York Public Library’s Social Media Page and previously held production roles at National Geographic and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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Current Projects
Usha directed, produced, shot, and edited a short documentary about two science researchers whose NIH funding was cut under the second Trump administration. She’s currently re-editing and expanding on this film, titled Death by a Thousand Cuts, to include stories of other scientists who have been impacted by the president’s new policies around science research, public funding, and DEI.