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SOMINI SENGUPTA was born in born in Calcutta, India. She lived in midwestern Canada for three short years, then was raised mostly in Southern California. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 1988 with B.A. in English and Development Studies. Somini has worked as a radio producer, cocktail waitress, community organizer for a few years before joining the Metpro minority training program at the Los Angeles Times in the summer of 1992. She worked at Newsday on Long Island for two years and came to the New York Times metro section in October 1995. She is now the New York Times West Africa bureau chief, based in Dakar. In early 2005, she will move to South Asia as New Delhi bureau chief, the first South Asian American to hold that position (see list of correspondents here). Among the awards she has won: the 2004 George Polk Award for foreign reporting; a 2004 National Association of Black Journalists Award for international reporting; a 1997 Newswomen's Club of New York Feature Writing Award; a 1999 SAJA Journalism Award for her reporting about an assault that united Indian immigrants from the Caribbean and India. Her work is featured in The Poynter Institute's Best Newspaper Writing 2000 (Bonus Books, 2000)
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