Riddhi Trivedi-St Clair

Riddhi Trivedi-St Clair began her career as the youngest reporter — and first woman on the sports desk — at The Times of India, before moving into daily journalism covering education, health, and social justice at The Indian Express, where her reporting on child labor earned the Overseas Press Club of America's Stan Swinton International Journalism Award.

She came to the United States to pursue an M.A. in Journalism at Indiana University, where professors Claude Cookman and Michael Evans shaped how she thinks about visual storytelling and ethnographic reporting. She went on to spend more than a decade as a business reporter in the United States, covering economic development and public companies for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Naples Daily News, and The Daily Iberian, and was later selected for the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism Fellowship.

"I got into journalism because of the same lofty ideals that so many of us do. … It's the challenge, the thrill of uncovering things other people didn't know, and you can tell them about." — IU School of Journalism, NEWSwire, Fall/Winter 2004–05

That reporting instinct — finding the real story inside complicated material, and protecting its accuracy under pressure — has carried through two decades of corporate and executive communications leadership since.