Neha Madhira

About Me

Neha Madhira is an independent journalist with a focus on geopolitical analysis, health and human rights in the MENA region and South Asia.

Prior to and during the COVID-19 global pandemic, she was a breaking news reporter at The Daily Texan where she reported on the first cases in Austin, TX. She spent the next several months researching how the pandemic was detrimental to education and healthcare systems domestically and abroad. As a spotlight was shone on these systemic problems, she covered the communities that were disproportionately impacted for the Women’s Media Center as an Editorial Board Member.

Surrounded by news from South Asia and the Middle East that hit very close to home, she reconciled with numerous women’s health and human rights issues, which she began reporting on as a freelancer in 2021. Since shifting her research, she has developed an expertise in emphasizing community voices across borders.

For the past three years, she has been working with journalists and NGOs to extensively cover the Zan, Zendegi, Azadi revolution in Iran. Since October of 2023, she has been researching and reporting on the complete collapse of medical infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank as well as separate attacks on Lebanon, Syria and Yemen by Israel.