Nimarta Narang is a writer, journalist, and media professional. As an international student at Tufts University, she graduated in 2017 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Experimental Psychology. She has worked in journalism, film, non-profit, and advocacy in the short years since her graduation.
In the fall of 2017, Nimarta worked at Guru Magazine for the Bangkok Post and covered the late King Bhumipol’s cremation, where she wrote a cover story about the processional events that took place in Thailand. In 2020, Nimarta began a master’s program at New York University where she was simultaneously an International Scholar and a screenwriting fellow, while also working in film and at Brown Girl Magazine. She finished the program within a year, and during the time she created and began running Brown Girl magazine’s literary vertical. Her goal as editor was to commission original short fiction from emerging and established South Asian writers. Her insightful episode for the esteemed literature podcast Lit Up in 2022 showcased her eloquence and intelligence when it comes to observing, analyzing, reporting, and writing about South Asian representation. During her master’s, Nimarta also completed a fellowship with the Sikh Coalition, the largest Sikh civil rights organization in the United States.
Nimarta herself is a distinguished journalist and writer. Her work has been published by such respected outlets as Teen Vogue, Oprah Magazine, Masala magazine, Bangkok Post, Vice Asia, Lifestyle Asia, South Asian Today, Joy Sauce, Business Insider, Harvard Asian American Policy Review, Women’s Republic, and Brown Girl magazine. She gained acceptance to an Autumn Incubator in fall of 2023 with full scholarship to work on her manuscript of short stories and was a participant in the 2024 winter workshop at Tin House, a prestigious writing program from the independent publisher, to develop her fiction writing. She is also a two-time year-long mentor in the New York University online journalism program.
In the fall of 2023, Forbes listed Nimarta as one of 14 important and emerging Asian and American Pacific Islander (API) Journalists. But Nimarta’s work earns significant recognition within the Asian Pacific Islander community as well. She was selected for the prestigious Gold House Accelerator in 2023, as well as a fellow for the Gold House Book Club in 2024, further indicating the importance of her voice in not only writing about and for the API community, but also curating and amplifying important books and written work by the community. She is currently their correspondent to host fireside chats with leading API authors. The Revolutionary Love Project granted Nimarta an award in December of 2023 to recognize her work as a journalist, writer, and storyteller whose mission is to amplify API voices. In April of 2024, she curated a panel for the Religion News Association’s 75th Anniversary about “Faith and Food,” to open a dialogue about cultural and religious diversity, and took part as a panelist.
In film, she has worked at multiple production companies across the United States and the United Kingdom in the years since graduation, such as Sierra/Affinity, Mister Smith, JuVee Productions, and Picturestart. She was a festival coordinator at the Berlin and Cannes film festival in 2019. She has also worked in the advocacy space. In May of 2021,
Nimarta, along with fellow Tufts Alumna Ria Mazumdar, helped raise $100,000 for an initiative by the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics, and Policy to send oxygen cylinders to India amid the pandemic. They worked with a group of their friends to reach out to their network to fundraise during a time when Nimarta herself was in Los Angeles and was not able to travel home to Bangkok to see her family. Nimarta will be attending Aspen Summer Words this summer in Colorado with a scholarship to develop her fiction manuscript.
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