Sanjana Bhambhani

Sanjana Bhambhani is a multimedia journalist who has worked with BBC Studios, The Rachel Maddow Show, and Velshi on MSNBC. She also produced videos about women from history through which she amassed a large following on social media. At the BBC, she's produced feature science, history and pop culture videos including on the science behind the near-death experience and how women lost their place in the beer brewing industry. ​ During her time at The Rachel Maddow Show, she designed and coordinated 80-140 graphic elements daily, wrote cut-ins, transcribed hearings and curated the morning note with the most important news of the day for the anchor and producers. Previously, she interned for Velshi on MSNBC, writing summaries on guests, practicing segment-writing, and pitching segment ideas. ​ As a Master's student at Columbia Journalism School, where she concentrated in the visual craft, she produced a documentary about a 70-year-old who, out after 46 years in prison, was re-learning how to live a normal life without a living family, money and the technical skills needed for modern day living. She also wrote, filmed and photographed labor, criminal justice and state politics stories, getting published in the Columbia News Service for her video on the NY State prison package ban and article on the legal loopholes in New York City's salary range law. She received honors for her work in Reporting, Investigative Techniques, Video and the History of Journalism. She also served as the President of Columbia's Chapter of Women in Media, organizing speaker and networking events for woman-identifying student journalists. ​ Sanjana graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Politics from New York University having been elected to Phi Kappa Beta National Honors Society and the Pi Sigma Alpha National Politics Honors Society. At NYU Madrid, she co-directed a bilingual documentary about the stigma around graffiti in Madrid. Sanjana was also the executive editor of the IR Insider and wrote for their Eastern and Central Europe desk, also working as their social media director from August 2020 to May 2021. She briefly worked as a Staff Opinion writer for Washington Square News.