Sonia Narang

Multimedia Journalist/Producer

Sonia Narang is a multimedia producer and journalist. She focuses on women's rights, global health, and climate change and has reported stories across Asia, Europe, and North America.

Sonia Narang is a multimedia journalist who reports on women's rights, climate change & the environment, global health, and music & culture. She has produced and reported in-depth multimedia projects at PRI's The World, including award-winning series on women in Nepal, the fight against cancer around the world, and an innovative school in South Africa. She has also filmed musicians for The World’s Global Hit web videos.
Sonia has produced and reported stories across Asia & the Pacific, Europe, Africa, and North America for the BBC, NPR News, Washington Post's The Lily, The New York Times, Frontline/World, NBC, and Time.com.
It's true, Sonia once filmed a cat café in Osaka, Japan. She's also reported on Indigenous fashion in Canada, women farmers affected by cyclones in Fiji, the aftermath of the Japan tsunami, and the controversy over U.S. military bases in Okinawa.
A native Californian, Sonia has a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Before that, she cut her teeth reporting and photographing for a newspaper in Colorado.
The Estonian folk music quartet 6hunesseq performs during Tallinn Music Week. From left to right, Marion Selgall, Greta Liisa Grünberg, Maria Mänd and Kaisa Kuslapuu.

All-women Estonian quartet brings ancient folk music to the forefront

The small Baltic nation of Estonia is experiencing a folk music renaissance, with young musicians bringing traditional songs and instruments to the forefront in an attempt to reassert a unique Estonian identity and keep the country’s ancient heritage alive.

All-women Estonian quartet brings ancient folk music to the forefront
Maria Beraldo

Musician Maria Beraldo rebels against Brazil’s far-right leader through song

Musician Maria Beraldo rebels against Brazil’s far-right leader through song
Musicians sit on a stage in blue lighting

Azoreans long for family abroad with this double-hearted instrument

Azoreans long for family abroad with this double-hearted instrument
two women

It took a cyclone for some Tongan women to get reproductive health care for the first time

It took a cyclone for some Tongan women to get reproductive health care for the first time
Water is life

Navajo women struggle to preserve traditions as climate change intensifies

Navajo women struggle to preserve traditions as climate change intensifies
Inka Saara Arttijeff

Finland's reindeer-herding Sámi women fight climate change

The Sámi are an indigenous population in the northern parts of Finland, as well as Sweden, Norway and Russia. However, the warming climate has threatened to disrupt the Sámi people's centuries-old tradition of reindeer herding. As Arctic temperatures rise more than twice as fast as the global average, reindeer herders are struggling to cope with increasingly unpredictable and extreme weather.

Finland's reindeer-herding Sámi women fight climate change
Elisabeth Holland

An American scientist stands up for the Pacific Islands at UN climate talks

Elisabeth Holland says countries like Fiji are facing a "truly existential crisis."

An American scientist stands up for the Pacific Islands at UN climate talks
Fiji's Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama recently led a rally in support of this year's UN climate summit in Germany, at which Fiji will be presiding.

Fijians speak from the front lines of climate change

This year's global climate summit is taking place in Germany, but it's being led by the Pacific island nation of Fiji. Here's what half a dozen Fijians think about hosting the conference and life in the cross-hairs of climate change.

Fijians speak from the front lines of climate change
Model

These photos show the strength and beauty of aboriginal cultures in Canada

Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week featured the creations of designers from First Nations communities across Canada.

These photos show the strength and beauty of aboriginal cultures in Canada
Large photo installed on one side of metal fencing looks out over Border Patrol SUV

Mexicans and Americans bond over a giant baby and a border wall

French artist JR announced this new installation in Tecate, California, the day the Trump administration announced the end of the DACA program, which protects some undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children from deportation.

Mexicans and Americans bond over a giant baby and a border wall
Sunila Wati at her vegetable stall in the market in Rakiraki, Fiji

Extreme weather is wreaking havoc on the lives of women farmers in Fiji

Scientists say warming ocean temperatures are a factor behind stronger storms and changing weather patterns in the South Pacific.

Extreme weather is wreaking havoc on the lives of women farmers in Fiji
Protesters demonstrate outside a US Marine base on Okinawa. The US plans to greatly expand the base in the rural fishing village of Henoko.

Despite longstanding local opposition, the US is expanding its Okinawa military base

The United States and Japan have been allies and strategic partners since World War II, but an effort to move and expand a Marine Corps base in Okinawa is causing friction with locals.

Despite longstanding local opposition, the US is expanding its Okinawa military base
The band members of Bokanté hail from four continents, and their music draws influences from Caribbean rhythms, West African music, and Mississippi Delta blues.

Bokanté serves up songs in the key of Creole

The fusion of West African music, Mississippi Delta blues and Caribbean rhythms are what the band Bokanté is all about.

Bokanté serves up songs in the key of Creole
Kumiko Onaga

In Okinawa, older women are on the front lines of the military base protest movement

Meet the "sleeping bag councilwoman" who camped out for an entire year to protest the relocation of a US military base on the island of Okinawa.

In Okinawa, older women are on the front lines of the military base protest movement
Man in sweatshirt with public defenders logo holds sign in Arabic

Federal judges have temporarily blocked parts of Trump’s immigration restrictions, but agents are still detaining people

The executive order that Donald Trump signed on Friday has been challenged in courts. At Los Angeles International Airport, attorneys are trying to help valid visa holders and legal permanent residents who are still being detained and subject to special screening.

Federal judges have temporarily blocked parts of Trump’s immigration restrictions, but agents are still detaining people