Sonia Narang

Producer/Video Journalist

Sonia Narang is a multimedia producer and video journalist. She has produced videos for in-depth multimedia projects at PRI's The World, including the global cancer series and the year-long South African school series. She has also filmed musicians for The World’s Global Hit web videos.

Sonia has also produced and reported video stories in Japan, India and the US for the New York Times, GlobalPost, PBS NewsHour, Frontline/World, and Time.com.

She once filmed a cat petting café in Osaka. She also reported on the aftermath of the Japan tsunami, the controversy over U.S. military bases in Okinawa, and alternative energy in rural India.

Sonia has a master’s degree in journalism and documentary film from the University of California at Berkeley. A native Californian, she first ventured east for college (majored in English at Amherst College), and got her start in journalism at a newspaper in Colorado more than a decade ago.

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

GlobalPost

August 14, 2018

When disaster strikes, it’s often women who are affected the most.

Environment

Navajo women struggle to preserve traditions as climate change intensifies

GlobalPost

May 25, 2018

In a region that only receives six inches of rainfall per year, each degree of temperature increase has an extreme effect on the arid land. “You add just a little bit of a temperature increase to a place that's already on the edge, and you've made an enormous change in the living conditions there,” one expert says.

Culture

Finland's reindeer-herding Sámi women fight climate change

GlobalPost

March 07, 2018

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.

Environment

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

PRI's The World

November 16, 2017

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

Environment

Fijians speak from the front lines of climate change

PRI's The World

November 13, 2017

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.

Arts

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

PRI's The World

September 20, 2017

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

Arts

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

PRI's The World

September 15, 2017

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.

Education

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

PRI's The World

August 28, 2017

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

Conflict

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

The Takeaway

August 08, 2017

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.