Mukta Joshi is an investigative reporting fellow at Mississippi Today through the 2024 Columbia Journalism School + INN Internship Program. . Mukta graduated with honors from Columbia Journalism School in 2024 as a fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, where her master’s thesis explored the growing South Asian influence on American politics. She is also a professional photojournalist, and her work has been published in TIME, Al Jazeera, WDR, New York Focus and Autostraddle.
One of her recent investigations, a combination of ground reporting, photojournalism and legal analysis, was selected by the Global Investigative Journalism Network as one of the eight best investigations from India in 2023.
Mukta is a 2019 graduate of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. She began her career as a corporate lawyer and most recently, led the legal research vertical at Land Conflict Watch, investigating and writing about land governance, environmental law and forest policy in India
